RE: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] You should not have to choose
| From: | Samuel Liddicott | Date: | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 15:27:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] You should not have to choose | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zeev Suraski [mailto:bourbon@netvision.net.il]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 01:12 PM
> To: Joel Jacobson
> Cc: php4beta@lists.php.net; php-dev@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP4BETA] Re: [PHP-DEV] You should not have to choose
>
> You're wrong, there's no way of solving this. Some basic knowledge of
> UNIX would hint you that you cannot in any way change between user-id's,
> back and forth, without forking processes. And avoiding process forking
> is exactly what the module version of PHP is all about.
*cough* I learned how to do this with the perl 4 manpage.
Of course it makes use of uid and euid, but your statement is a little
misleading - anyway Samba does it all the time.
But yes; for security reasons uid=root is not the kind of think you like to
do when running user code (UNlike samba).
Sam