Backdoor

[nielsplus]

I would like to make a backdoor in my program.

what are your thoughts about this?

grtz niels

[laserlight]

why in the world would you want to do that?
why would you need a backdoor for, anyway?

[nielsplus]

Just to get acces.

[John_Canyon]

Thats called creating a user authentication system.

Not created a backdoor, which naturally would be a
huge security hole.

[WinterDragon]

I can think of one reason why he would want it... to maybe make a script, distribute it, then gain control of it (shrugs) hehe... shrugs

[stolzyboy]

yeah i don't know his intentions, but if you want access to your own script you are making for say, a client, and say its a login script, all you do is give yourself a username/password, and voila, i think there are other intentions in mind

[foolguitardude]

If he does have ulterior motives, and his script is distributed, someone will eventually discover the devious code and alert the user base. So it would be a waste of time.

[laserlight]

Well, he could write an OS with a backdoor, create a language for this OS, write a compiler for this language on this OS, get this compiler to insert the backdoor everytime it compiled the OS login system code, as well as recognize that it is compiling its own code and insert the code to insert the backdoor in the OS as well as to insert the code into another version of itself when it is being compiled.

hmm... and maybe for historical reasons the backdoor username should be "ken"?
😃

[largo]

I wonder what the purpose was... the original poster never replied.

Just on topic: I have generally made allowances in some modules (especially payment processing modules) which bypass certain actions and continue processing a request which would otherwise fail.

The reasoning is to allow administrators and programmers to run system checks or track possible issues without extensive roll back actions.

The clients are made aware of such modules and the option to remove this functionality always exists.

Classified as a "backdoor" guys?

[laserlight]

that would be a backdoor, but it isnt insecure since the implementation allows for the removal of the backdoor function.

[jimson]

your password and all your backdoor code is not in the database.

your backdoor code is somehow intergrated with the application you are trying to build

[WinterDragon]

I like the name "jonathan" for the username for the backdoor snickers

[nielsplus]

srry for my late reply. I was away.

I was just curious if a backdoor was used often, creating unlimited acces for the programmer.

And how it was generaly implemented.

grtz niels 🙂