Re: [PHP-DB] security in PHP under Apache

2001-05-23 Thread Zak Greant
OTECTED]> Cc: "'Simon R Jones'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PHP-DB (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] security in PHP under Apache > But how do you set it so a webuser would run sudo? That sounds pretty &g

Re: [PHP-DB] security in PHP under Apache

2001-05-23 Thread Terry Romine
But how do you set it so a webuser would run sudo? That sounds pretty dangerous, to me. I have a similar situation where I want PHP to create a subdirectory and set privileges to it based on the login user. I end up having to create the directory by hand via SSH and then run the php script. T

RE: [PHP-DB] security in PHP under Apache

2001-05-23 Thread Jonathan Hilgeman
PHP runs via Apache, so it adopts the user that Apache uses, essentially. You can use a program like sudo to allow them to run certain commands on the server. Jonathan -Original Message- From: Simon R Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PRO