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Re: Adding two new booleans to httpd to tighten it's security.: msg#00039
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Re: Adding two new booleans to httpd to tighten it's security. |
Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Connecting to the local database should not be a problem, since that
> would be over a unix domain socket. Mail is currently shut off and you
> need to turn on boolean to allow it.
Please don't make this assumption. A lot of web application authors
don't bother to enable this (assuming that the database, the web
scripting language, and the connection software all support it), so it's
necessary to use a network connection over the loopback adapter.
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