[Wylug-admin] Fwd: Removal from Google's index - responsibility

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, John Leach wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 17:57 +0100, Mark P. Conmy wrote:
>>> 
>>> Given shell access to the box I could get Wordpress upgraded (assuming
>>> not too much weirdness in the setup/permissions), and I'd put it on my
>>> Wordpress upgrade procedure so I'd keep it up to date in future (yes I
>>> have a procedure, I have rather a lot of Wordpress sites that need
>>> update rather too often *sighs).
>>
>> Oh, there's weirdness, not least being safe_mode.
>
> Ok, I'll see how far I get then.  Have worked with php safe mode before.

Then it should be fine - people who haven't find it difficult.

>> Personally, I would prefer PHP was avoided.
>
> I can understand.  I think the first step should be to upgrade Wordpress
> as it should be relatively painless to do and will give us time to
> decided what to do next.

Okay.

>>> Not sure how we can go about you trusting me to give me access though
>>> Mark as we don't know each other so well.  Dave moreso perhaps, but we
>>> haven't swapped gpg keys or anything :/
>>
>> I can pass on the password on Monday in person.
>
> Great, thanks Mark.
>
> In the mean time we could be re-exploited, but we can just remove the
> content again.  Not sure what the exact bug is, but if manage to spare 5
> minutes in the mean time you could remove the xmlrpc.php file from the
> wordpress root (it's usually to blame and is hardly necessary at all).

Gone.

Mark