atom feed7 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: running phpmyadmin on non-standar...
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maxxerFeb 3, 2012 2:00 am 
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António P. P. AlmeidaFeb 3, 2012 8:36 am 
Subject:Re: running phpmyadmin on non-standard dir
From:António P. P. Almeida (ap@perusio.net)
Date:Feb 3, 2012 8:36:00 am
List:ru.sysoev.nginx

On 3 Fev 2012 16h10 WET, cal@gmail.com wrote:

If you are inexperienced, do not run phpmyadmin publically as /phpmyadmin or you will fall behind a security update to find your system compromised (and now the new member in the botnet!) I used to hunt botnets for awhile and PhpMyAdmin was a common way to get in

Yep. There's a FD post by the Gentoo security team that exposes what an utter complete wreck security wise phpmyadmin is:

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jan/39

Use Chive: http://www.chive-project.com

Don't forget to set: cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 on the php.ini.

You're gaining something in security terms by choosing Nginx over Apache, don't throw that under a bus by using phpmyadmin.

--- appa