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Why can I access my home directory from the CSLab web server?

April 26, 2017cslab directory Home web server

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Why can I access my home directory from the CSLab web server?

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The web server runs unaudited programs which may be written by any CSLab user. Such programs could easily contain security holes. For this reason, the security of the web server host is inherently poorer than the rest of the lab.