On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Olivier Berger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
>  I'm considering the right way to manage the PHP session files on
>  standard installations in Debian.
>
>  Maybe you can help, as I'm not really expert in PHP.
>
>  In Debian's default configuration, phpGroupware uses session files, and
>  the session.save_path is directed to a specific directory, separate from
>  the PHP5 default (/var/lib/phpgroupware/sessions instead of the
>  default /var/lib/php5/ in Debian).
>
>  I guess such a separate dir was a way to prevent collision with other
>  applicatons which may lead to security issues as phpGroupware sessions
>  may contain sensitive information.
>
>  Would this be a big risk to store them in the same place as other PHP
>  apps installed on the same server ?
>
>  Would you recommend any policy ?
>
>  You'll find bellow a bug-report about these files not being purged ATM
>  in Debian, btw ;)
>

it's always been my impression that php's garbage collection, not a
cron job, handles removing old session files.  maybe what we have a
bug in php itself...


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