X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/af3b457b80d9cd7fa85514e1f1dd583e2f165ba3..99018a65e5f4cb7378b4e78d2357d3f07f39691a:/doc/tips/dot_cgi/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/tips/dot_cgi/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/dot_cgi/discussion.mdwn index 982621295..8bca5ef5a 100644 --- a/doc/tips/dot_cgi/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/dot_cgi/discussion.mdwn @@ -2,4 +2,8 @@ Is your warning at the bottom (you don't know how secure it is) only about lighttpd or it's about apache2 configuration as well? -I'm asking this because right now I want to setup an httpd solely for the public use of ikiwiki on a general puprpose computer (there are other things there), and so I need to choose the more secure solution. --Ivan Z. +I'm asking this because right now I want to setup an httpd solely for the public use of ikiwiki on a general purpose computer (there are other things there), and so I need to choose the more secure solution. --Ivan Z. + +> AFAIU, my main simplest security measure should be running the public ikiwiki's cgi under a special user, but then: how do I push to the repo owned by that other user? I see, probably I should setup the public wiki under the special user (so that it was able to create the cgi-script with the desired permission), and then give my personal user the required permissions to make a git-push by, say, creating a special Unix group for this. + +> Shouldn't there be a page here which would document a secure public and multi-user installation of ikiwiki (by "multi-user" I mean writable by a group of local Unix users)? If there isn't such yet, I started writing it with this discussion.--Ivan Z.