Yes, but you don't On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@itech7.com>wrote:
On 01/27/2010 08:01 PM, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
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Adam Gregory schrieb:
This is more a server security issue rather than a Drupal one. I've seen this happen with Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress and custom PHP code. It really most likely means that access to the server/host was compromised at some point.
There are lost of things that can be done to prevent this like chmod/own-ing your file system correctly(As Gerhard touched on). This is also a good reason to use SFTP rather then FTP as passwords in SFTP are sent encrypted and FTP are not leaving them open to a *man-in-the-middle attack.*
People still using FTP in 2010 should be shot on sight.
Cheers, Gerhard
*ahem*
Public mirrors do use them ?
FTP is good if you can configure it properly. It can be a big bug in the security as happened in this case if not configured properly :)
Yes, but public mirrors do not require passwords. What Gerhard is talking about is uploading stuff to your site via an FTP account with a user name and password. -- Khalid M. Baheyeldin 2bits.com, Inc. http://2bits.com Drupal optimization, development, customization and consulting. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. -- Edsger W.Dijkstra Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci