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kghose on Sept 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Attempt to hack WordPress with a pull request

Thanks. I'm with parent and very curious about what this is about. Does this console give root access to the server via a web interface?

OtisBoxcar on Sept 2, 2012 [–]

Sort of. It gives access with whatever user the webserver is running under. Might be root, but will usually be a less privileged user eg www-data.

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