Re: some permission problem?

Hi

I would assume that you are running some kind of unix platform. You should have a look at your HTTP server configuration as well as the log files, and try and determine how the person grabbed the password file. A number of older webservers were vulnerable to the so-called '..' or directory traversal whereby they person could do the following:

Given that the webserver webroot "/" is in /usr/www, they can send a request for /../../etc/passwd. Using normal Unix directory traversal, the passwd file would be retrieved.

I would suggest you investigate whether your web server is vulnerable to this problem first off, and possibly if you are able to correct this. However without further information its difficult to provide further assistance.

Barry

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Subject: some permission problem?

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