Last time I checked Hostgator will give you shell access for a one time
charge of $10 per virtual host on their reseller accounts.
There is more to your story and a problem I would think some of us have.
I was bit by the recent Drupal exploit. Security is the down side of
open source. I was bit several years ago because of an exploit in an
open source app.
It literally feels like a war zone out there. I recently found a Drupal
install on one of my domains that I had forgotten I had put out there.
I, like you David, tend to set it and forget it. Not any more.
On 2014-11-19 23:34, David Schwartz wrote:
> It’s a shared (reseller) hosting account at HostGator.
>
> I can upload scripts and set them up to run under cron (via cPanel),
> but I don’t have SSH access.
>
> -David
>
>> On Nov 19, 2014, at 9:51 PM, Eric Cope <eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> can you install it locally? run it in userspace?
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:42 PM, David Schwartz
>> <newsletters@thetoolwiz.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Does anybody know of any scripts like tripwire that are designed
>>> to be installed on shared hosting accounts to alert you to
>>> unexpected changes?
>>>
>>> Tripwire works by taking an inventory of the folders and files
>>> you want to monitor. It then will do a scan periodically via a
>>> cron entry and compare the file signatures with those recorded
>>> previously, as well as the two sets of file lists. Any new,
>>> modified, or deleted files will be reported to you via email or
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>> Somebody hacked into one of my websites through an exploit on an
>>> old WP plugin that I neglected to update. I have no idea when it
>>> happened, but just learned about it last week. I don’t pay a lot
>>> of attention to most of my sites, so I thought it would make sense
>>> to install something like tripwire to look for unexpected changes.
>>> (Tripwire itself needs to be installed in the root and needs root
>>> access, AFAIK. Maybe not. Suggestions welcome!)
>>>
>>> -David
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