100 Posts in 100 Days: Day 65, Redux
Mar. 5th, 2012 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zolaI just had to come back to whine.
A major web hosting provider had an issue with Plesk. Plesk is a hosting interface tool that you use to do things like add a subdomain, create email addresses, etc etc etc. Apparently a security hole was found in Plesk LAST SEPTEMBER.
The major hosting company had run the patch, but was not fully informed of the extent of the problem, and all Plesk user passwords were compromised. Since blankety-blank blank blank blank September.
Clearly, it's not good. And what does this mean for me, you may wonder.
Why, I'm glad you asked! It means that instead of doing what I was planning to do today, it means that I am logging into Plesk, one site at a time, to over fifty customer accounts and going to the database screen. I then go to my ftp program. I either a) create the new ftp account or b) update the existing ftp account with the new host-provided ftp password. I go look at the site files and find any configuration type files where the site must connect to the database. I download those files, change to the new database password, then go back into the database screen, change the password and then go back and upload my changed files. Then I log out of Plesk and move on to the next site. Then I do it again. And then again.
Doesn't that sound like fun? (Don't answer. Please.) I'm almost halfway through the list, hopefully it will only be another hour, and then work is done for the day. *sighs*
A major web hosting provider had an issue with Plesk. Plesk is a hosting interface tool that you use to do things like add a subdomain, create email addresses, etc etc etc. Apparently a security hole was found in Plesk LAST SEPTEMBER.
The major hosting company had run the patch, but was not fully informed of the extent of the problem, and all Plesk user passwords were compromised. Since blankety-blank blank blank blank September.
Clearly, it's not good. And what does this mean for me, you may wonder.
Why, I'm glad you asked! It means that instead of doing what I was planning to do today, it means that I am logging into Plesk, one site at a time, to over fifty customer accounts and going to the database screen. I then go to my ftp program. I either a) create the new ftp account or b) update the existing ftp account with the new host-provided ftp password. I go look at the site files and find any configuration type files where the site must connect to the database. I download those files, change to the new database password, then go back into the database screen, change the password and then go back and upload my changed files. Then I log out of Plesk and move on to the next site. Then I do it again. And then again.
Doesn't that sound like fun? (Don't answer. Please.) I'm almost halfway through the list, hopefully it will only be another hour, and then work is done for the day. *sighs*
