web server directory listings security issue

Griffith Feeney gfeeney at gfeeney.com
Sat Oct 27 07:19:13 PDT 2001


Having directory listings turned on, so that web users can see the list of 
files and directories in any directory that doesn't have an index file, is 
said to be a security concern. Can somebody tell me in a sentence or two 
why? And perhaps how big a security concern it is? Thanks!



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