Something I've often meant to find out...
Say you have a fairly secure apache installation
(.htaccess disallowed, no cgi/scriptalias, no ssi,
etc.) running as user nobody why is it a bad idea to
have files under the doc root owned by nobody (perms
644)? I assume its because anybody can su to user
nobody if they have a shell. Is there another reason?
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