Topic: is safety of TWiki protected by suEXEC?

[jurjen]

Hi,
I would like to use TWiki (perl-based collaboration) on the internet but I heard rumours that it is unsafe to use TWiki without suEXEC.

E-smith has suEXEC pre-installed with Apache already. Great! But, does it mean that TWiki is protected already, or should I do something special with the default suEXEC configuration? That would be a problem because I don't understand much about it.

TWiki is installed and automatically configured by the rpm I found here somewhere on e-smith.org.

I am pretty naive about safety.. what exactly is unsafe about TWiki and what can I do about it?

Thanks,
Jurjen.