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Security Features
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Module: core
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:Author: Jan Kneschke
:Date: $Date: 2004/08/29 09:44:53 $
:Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $
:abstract:
lighttpd was developed with security in mind ...
.. meta::
:keywords: lighttpd, security
.. contents:: Table of Contents
Description
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Limiting POST requests
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server.max-request-size = <kbyte>
System Security
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Running daemons as root with full privileges is a bad idea in general.
lighttpd runs best without any extra privileges and runs perfectly in chroot.
Change Root
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server.chroot = "..."
Drop root privileges
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server.username = "..."
server.groupname = "..."
FastCGI
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fastcgi + chroot
Permissions
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::
$ useradd wwwrun ...
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