Moodle hacked, file permissions in IIS

Re: Moodle hacked, file permissions in IIS

by Howard Miller -
Number of replies: 3
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Yep - the installation instructions (although somewhat Unix biased) tell you to make sure that the web server user cannot write to the Moodle program directory.

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Re: Moodle hacked, file permissions in IIS

by Dave Keller -

So you think completely removing the first entry (IUSR) will bring it in line with recommendations?

Thanks for the replies, much appriciated.

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Re: Moodle hacked, file permissions in IIS

by Howard Miller -
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Just change it's permission to 'Read and execute'. What you don't want is write/modify etc.

Sorry, I don't speak Windows but that's the general idea.

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Re: Moodle hacked, file permissions in IIS

by Dave Keller -

Thanks for your time, it's much appreciated