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| author | Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp@poplarware.com> | 2012-08-31 08:42:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Jennifer Hodgdon <yahgrp@poplarware.com> | 2012-08-31 08:42:21 -0700 |
| commit | 3782025a16d8c1f01a43b34a44b811e2aaf9b1a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f1a7bac9fe9e4bccf3229ebc5f1478ff7185f60 /sites | |
| parent | eaa33c95185266b0c4d1f6115e8f73284625eff9 (diff) | |
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Issue #932110 by dcam, Albert Volkman, jurgenhaas, marji, David_Rothstein: Add note to settings.php about updates and security
Diffstat (limited to 'sites')
| -rw-r--r-- | sites/default/default.settings.php | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sites/default/default.settings.php b/sites/default/default.settings.php index 0ae34a2bb..7071a5820 100644 --- a/sites/default/default.settings.php +++ b/sites/default/default.settings.php @@ -510,13 +510,21 @@ $conf['404_fast_html'] = '<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><titl * * The Update manager module included with Drupal provides a mechanism for * site administrators to securely install missing updates for the site - * directly through the web user interface by providing either SSH or FTP - * credentials. This allows the site to update the new files as the user who - * owns all the Drupal files, instead of as the user the webserver is running - * as. However, some sites might wish to disable this functionality, and only - * update the code directly via SSH or FTP themselves. This setting completely + * directly through the web user interface. On securely-configured servers, + * the Update manager will require the administrator to provide SSH or FTP + * credentials before allowing the installation to proceed; this allows the + * site to update the new files as the user who owns all the Drupal files, + * instead of as the user the webserver is running as. On servers where the + * webserver user is itself the owner of the Drupal files, the administrator + * will not be prompted for SSH or FTP credentials (note that these server + * setups are common on shared hosting, but are inherently insecure). + * + * Some sites might wish to disable the above functionality, and only update + * the code directly via SSH or FTP themselves. This setting completely * disables all functionality related to these authorized file operations. * + * @see http://drupal.org/node/244924 + * * Remove the leading hash signs to disable. */ # $conf['allow_authorize_operations'] = FALSE; |