Hi Scott,

That helps. Thanks.

James

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Scott Gifford <sgiff...@suspectclass.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 2:28 AM, James Corteciano 
> <ja...@linux-source.org>wrote:
> [ ... ]
>
>> I am just concern about security matters that will produce if I will give
>> the user full access on .htaccess (AllowOverride All) on their webroot?
>>
>
> AllowOverride All effectively allows a user who can create a .htaccess file
> to access any file the Web server can read, and execute any code they would
> like to as the Web server user.  From a security perspective it's equivalent
> to giving the user a shell as the Web server user.  That may or may not be
> consistent with your security objectives.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> -----Scott.
>
>

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