Wiki articles in category How-tos tagged with "security"

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Using phpseclib with Yii

Created 11 years ago by nkd, updated 11 years ago by nkd.

I installed phpseclib because I needed to do some AES encryption in my project. After all the hassle of installing php lib, I found out that Yii already has a security module (securityManager). I finally decided to keep using phpseclib because it has one big advantage over Yii securityManager module, it does...

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ACL and RBAC

Created 11 years ago by zeroByte, updated 11 years ago by kevinkorb.

This HowTo assumes that you have a smattering of ACL in general and of how the acl-extension works basically. It will introduce you into the abstract and give you a hint on how to use Business-Rules. If you have in-depth questions, please refer to the extension documentation. Using ACL in an RBAC-manner cannot and should never obs...

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Mais segurança em suas aplicações com Yii e PHPIDS

Created 13 years ago by Rafael Garcia, updated 13 years ago by Rafael Garcia.

PHPIDS é conhecido projeto que pode ser visto em php-ids.org.

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Enhance security of cookie-based login

Created 9 years ago by darkheir, updated 9 years ago by darkheir.

When talking about cookie-base login the Yii guide indicates the following:

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Checking for "expired" sessions/logins on the client side

Created 10 years ago by le_top, updated 9 years ago by le_top.

Getting "Expired token" errors ? Here is a solution to avoid invalid CSRF on POST or ajax requests, or user identity changes.

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Single PHP entry point with Nginx

Created 8 years ago by MadAnd, updated 8 years ago by MadAnd.

In this article I will show you how to slightly increase application security, by exploiting the fact that Yii implements the Front Controller Pattern.

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Show captcha after <N> unsuccessfull attempts

Created 11 years ago by zitter, updated 11 years ago by zitter.

In this mini howto I would like to show how to add a required captcha field in the login form, after a defined number of unsuccessfull attempts. To do this, I will use the blog demo that you have in default Yii download package (path/to/yii/demos/blog).

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Secure password hashing with bCrypt

Created 12 years ago by waitforit, updated 11 years ago by Ivo Pereira.

In this article I will show you how to implement a secure password hashing mechanism in your Yii projects using a bCrypt class.

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More security in your applications with Yii and PHPIDS

Created 13 years ago by Rafael Garcia, updated 13 years ago by Gustavo.

PHPIDS is a well known project that can be found in php-ids.org.

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How to hide /frontend/web in url addresses on apache

Created 9 years ago by raminious, updated 9 years ago by jim..

There is an issue on Yii2 to redirecting / urls to /frontend/web.
In other words we need a way to hidden /frontend/web from addresses.
We will do this without changing Apache configuration and creating virtual host or setting document root (It's good for share hostings that we have not access to apache.conf)

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Version: 2.0
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Configuring controller access rules to default-deny

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 10 years ago by nsanden.

Starting with the blog tutorial, Yii developers are familiar with the notion of access rules defined in the controller, where the actions are allowed or denied depending on the user's name or role.

class CommentController extends CController {
    public function filters()
    {
        return array( 'accessControl' ); // perform access control for CRUD operations
    }

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Moving project code outside of webroot (plus multiple project support)

Created 13 years ago by Steve Friedl, updated 12 years ago by Steve Friedl.

Yii's by-default directory organization works well enough, but there are several steps one can take that improve the security and serviceability of the system, especially in the context of multiple Yii projects on the same machine (including multiple versions of the same project).

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Simple authorization system

Created 12 years ago by Gustavo, updated 10 years ago by Gustavo.

How to create a simple (non-RBAC) authorization system

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Authenticating against phpass hashes with Yii

Created 12 years ago by Da:Sourcerer, updated 9 years ago by Da:Sourcerer.
  • iteration_count_log2 controls the number of iterations for key stretching. A setting of 8 means the hash algorithm will be applied 2^8 = 256 times. This setting should be kept between 4 and 31.
  • portable_hashes controls whether portable hashes should be used or not. Portable hashes are salted MD5 hashes prefixed by $P$.
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How to write secure Yii1 applications

Created 12 years ago by François Gannaz, updated 2 years ago by François Gannaz.
  • Validate the user input (see below for details).
  • Protect (escape) your application output according to context (see below for a few output types, mostly HTML and SQL).
  • Test your application in debug mode.
    Set the constant YII_DEBUG to true (by default, it is defined in index.php) and put alongside error_reporting(E_ALL);. Then errors and warnings will stop the execution an...
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