#19298 [NEW]: SAFE MODE error -- uid -1!!!

From: kh@waikato.ac.nz Operating system: linux 2.2.19 PHP version: 4.2.3 PHP Bug Type: Apache2 related Bug description: SAFE MODE error -- uid -1!!! 1. Start apache 2 - ./apachectl startssl OR just 'start' 2. Request file phptest.php (containing just phpinfo() call). 3. Browser reports incomplete page (actually nothing at all). 4. Stop apache. 5. View apache error_log file which contains - [notice] Apache/2.0.40 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.40 OpenSSL/0.9.6g DAV/2 PHP/4.2.3 configured -- resuming normal operations PHP Warning: SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is -1 is not allowed to access /home/htdocs/phptest.php owned by uid 99 in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Failed opening '/home/htdocs/phptest.php' for inclusion (include_path= ...) in Unknown on line 0 Apache is running as uid 99 and the named file is owned by that user and permissions rwx are provided - but I have never heard of a uid -1. I do note that an earlier bug last year complained of something similar but with uid 1 (as opposed to -1) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19298&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=trysnapshot Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=19298&r=globals