Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Security and Technology : any security risk to active "function.opendir" ?

[jestin_virtual]

Hello ,


one of our customers has requested me to active "function.opendir"


Would u please let me know if there is any Security issue & risk ?

[GameFrame]

I would not consider this function itself as security risk. Gallery scripts and such needs this function enabled.

[net]

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[twhiting9275]

Originally Posted by GameFrame

I would not consider this function itself as security risk. Gallery scripts and such needs this function enabled.

Gallery scripts need a lot of functions enabled that "sysadmins" want to tell you to disable.

Rather than disabling php functions, your best answer is to secure the server so that this stuff can't be abused, but you can use the functionality of php.