[dev] help/options links

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Sep 1 05:44:06 PDT 2004


Quoting Roel Gloudemans <roel at gloudemans.info>:

>>> e.g. set ownership of cmdshell.php to root:sys and permissions to 500
>>> (or remove the script alltogether). In that case the webserver 
>>> cannot execute the script. If we can detect this from the menu 
>>> script we don't show the link.
>>
>> Okay, but you don't really *need* menu checks then, since the links
>> simply won't work. :)
>
> Ewwww, ugly!

Indeed, but so is putting in checks on the permissions of files on 
specific menu
items that'll need to be hardcoded. And are tailored to the requirements of a
single site, not a general solution.

-chuck

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