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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)
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- Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)
- From: "Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh]" <aditya.deshmukh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:15:52 +0530
> HTML file is an PHP, or an .index.php.swp is found, values like DB
> usernames/passwords, security mechanism or worse might be revealed to the
> user requesting the file.
>
> What can you do?
> There isn't much you can do beside:
> 1) Avoid leaving these files behind
> 2) Make rules in Apache/whatever to block access to .swp, ~, etc files.
3. rm -rf $TMP in the logout script - all users tmp is cleared at logout or at
login or maybe you want to secure delete those files instead of just doing
rm....
-aditya
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