lighttpd1.4/doc/security.txt

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Security Features
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Module: core
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:Author: Jan Kneschke
:Date: $Date: 2004/08/29 09:44:53 $
:Revision: $Revision: 1.2 $

:abstract:
  lighttpd was developed with security in mind ...

.. meta::
  :keywords: lighttpd, security

.. contents:: Table of Contents

Description
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Limiting POST requests
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::

   server.max-request-size = <kbyte>

System Security
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Running daemons as root with full privileges is a bad idea in general.
lighttpd runs best without any extra privileges and runs perfectly in chroot.

Change Root
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server.chroot = "..."

Drop root privileges
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server.username = "..."
server.groupname = "..."

FastCGI
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fastcgi + chroot

Permissions
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::

  $ useradd wwwrun ...