Chapter 6: Administering Security; About Coldfusion Mx Security - MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7 - CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION MX Manual

CHAPTER 6
Administering Security
This chapter describes configuration options for Macromedia ColdFusion MX security. You can
secure a number of Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 resources with password access and you can
configure sandbox security.
Contents

About ColdFusion MX security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using password protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using sandbox security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
About ColdFusion MX security
Security is especially important in web-based applications, such as those you develop in
ColdFusion MX. ColdFusion developers and administrators must fully understand the security
risks that could affect their development and runtime environments so they can enable and
restrict access appropriately.
You implement development security by requiring a password to use the ColdFusion MX
Administrator and a password for Remote Development Services (RDS), which allows developers
to develop CFML pages remotely. You implement runtime security in your CFML pages and in
the ColdFusion MX Administrator. ColdFusion MX has the following runtime security
categories:
User security Programmatically determine the logged-in user and allow or disallow restricted
functionality based on the roles assigned to that user. For more information about user security,
see "ColdFusion security features" in Chapter 16, "Securing Applications," in ColdFusion MX
Developer's Guide.
Sandbox security Using the ColdFusion MX Administrator, define the actions and resources
that the ColdFusion pages in and below a specified directory can use.
Note: If you have the Enterprise Edition of ColdFusion MX, you can configure multiple security
sandboxes. If you have the Standard Edition of ColdFusion MX, you can only configure a single
security sandbox.
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