From:             aheckmann at m-s dot de
Operating system: Windows 2000 / IIS
PHP version:      5.2.3
PHP Bug Type:     IIS related
Bug description:  exec, passthru, popen... don't passthru Impersonation context 

Description:
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I run php as fastcgi on Win2000 / IIS with Zend Enabler (FASTCGI-Handler).


The Webserver uses impersonation for its virtual hosts, the worker process
is running as user
IWAM_SERVERNAME the scripts (.asp/.php) impersonate to the security
context of user IUSR_SERVERNAME.

In fastcgi.conf (for ZendEnabler) Impersonate="1" is set,
in php.ini fcgi.impersonate=1 is set.

So the php scripts now also use the impersonated security context. (As
expected.)

But if I start a external process (Imagemagick) with
exec(),passthru(),popen() or proc_open() this external process uses the
default security context in my example the user IWAM_SERVERNAME.

So all the permissions set for the virtual host user (IUSR_SERVERNAME)
do not work for the external process because it runs as IWAM_SERVERNAME
and so I get a permission denied.

As I understand this is the default behaviour in windows process modell
when creating a new process with WinApi-function CreateProcess().
In my opinion it would be better to use CreateProcessAsUser() in php so
the new Process will also use the impersonated SecurityContext.
(when php.ini fcgi.impersonate=1 is set)

I think this feature would be very useful to keep security in virtual
hosting environments on IIS high (seperate permissions for virtual hosts),
with the upcoming Microsoft-FCGI-ISAP-Handler the IIS installations with
PHP will surely raise and this feature will become much more relevant.


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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=41768&r=mysqlcfg

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