Re: postie (command line mailer for windows)

2001-09-04 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Lynn, If you are interested in an alternative tool to send mail than postie, you may want to look at Mail::Sender which is what we tend to recommend to user's of our NT Scripts. Although if anyone has more up to date information on the best Mailer to use for NT, I'd be glad to hear it and upd

Extened - Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Rajeev Rumale
Greetings to all, This is really a good thread we have. How ever as the title is not restricting to database security. I would like to add my concern to it. I need to store some uploaded files from the "visitors" into some directories which are inside website root. Since the files submited are

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 10:34 AM 9/4/2001 +, Mel Matsuoka wrote: >At 07:20 PM 09/04/2001 +0100, yahoo wrote: > >Hi all, > >I'd like to find out peoples opinion on the following. > > > >If you have a perl cgi script which accesses a database, are there any > >security issues with having the DBI connection details i

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 04:49 PM 09/04/2001 -0400, Lisa Nyman wrote: >Hi, > >One thing to do is to be sure that the db user who accesses the db >from a web page has properly restricted rights within the database. > >For example, in mysql, you can set table and column priveledges for each >user and table. This is a ve

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Lisa Nyman
Hi, One thing to do is to be sure that the db user who accesses the db from a web page has properly restricted rights within the database. For example, in mysql, you can set table and column priveledges for each user and table. Lisa Wolfisch Nyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IT Warrior Princess "Life

Re: securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread Mel Matsuoka
At 07:20 PM 09/04/2001 +0100, yahoo wrote: >Hi all, >I'd like to find out peoples opinion on the following. > >If you have a perl cgi script which accesses a database, are there any >security issues with having the DBI connection details in the perl script >(rather than, say, an external file not

postie (command line mailer for windows)

2001-09-04 Thread Lynn Glessner
Here is an interesting tidbit for anyone thinking of using the command line mail tool "postie" on Windows from their cgi script. I decided to send email through a system call to postie, just because postie is how I have always sent mail from the command line in Windows :) I couldn't figure out wh

securing sensitive information in CGI scripts

2001-09-04 Thread yahoo
Hi all, I'd like to find out peoples opinion on the following. If you have a perl cgi script which accesses a database, are there any security issues with having the DBI connection details in the perl script (rather than, say, an external file not in the document root - is this better?)? What do

Access Denied When Trying to Create Directory?

2001-09-04 Thread David Simcik
Hey all, I'm simply trying to create a directory on a mapped (remote) drive from a CGI script using the mkdir() function. I keep on getting "Access Denied" errors or the like every time I try to create a new directory. What do I need to do to assign the proper rights to my script so it can