Net::OpenID::Server

Brad Fitzpatrick brad at danga.com
Tue May 24 15:02:31 PDT 2005


On Wed, 25 May 2005, Phillip Pearson wrote:

> One concern about this is that for the web server to be able to sign
> requests, it has to be able to get at the private key.  If this is run
> on a shared host, other users on that host are likely to be able to
> read the key as well.  So while it helps make things more
> *distributed*, it's not necessarily more *secure* - although some sort
> of setuid wrapper would fix this, I suppose.

That's a configuration problem.  Your host should have each Apache/PHP
process owned by the uid/gid of each customer, and you guys shouldn't have
access to see each other's files.

- Brad


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