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RE: [Full-Disclosure] Temporary Files and Web Sites (swp, ~, etc)

From: Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh] <aditya.deshmukh@online.gateway.technolabs.net>
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 00:45:52 EDT

> HTML file is an PHP, or an .index.php.swp is found, values like DB
> usernames/passwords, security mechanism or worse might be revealed to the
> user requesting the file.
>
> What can you do?
> There isn't much you can do beside:
> 1) Avoid leaving these files behind
> 2) Make rules in Apache/whatever to block access to .swp, ~, etc files.

3. rm -rf $TMP in the logout script - all users tmp is cleared at logout or at login or maybe you want to secure delete those files instead of just doing rm....

-aditya

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