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On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:10:24 +0300, ????? Gr33k <nikos@superhost.gr>
declaimed the following:

>
>But he cgi scripts when running have full access to the server.
>No? or they only have the kind of access that their user has also?
>
	In any decent system, the web server runs as a particular user, and
only has access to the web content and scripts. And those scripts run as
the web server process (at most -- it may be that they run at an even more
restricted mode).

	So NO, they do NOT have access to stuff under /root; for ancient
CGI-BIN style, they may be restricted to only the files in the CGI-BIN
directory.
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