PHP 4.0 Bug #9516: No trivial way to bypass safe mode when running as a shell

From: bram@xspace.com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 4.0.4pl1 PHP Bug Type: PHP options/info functions Bug description: No trivial way to bypass safe mode when running as a shell I keep PHP both as an apache module and as a standalone shell, However, to be responsible, I need safe mode for the apache module and so it's in the .ini file. But when I run the script from a standalone shell from suexec, PHP insists on reading the .ini, going into safe mode, and then setuid's -1, from which there is no recovery. There is no way around this except to compile each version with a separate config-file-path, one path has a config without safe_mode and one does. Scenario: script file has same owner uid as POSIX getuid() script is being executed through a shell (#!/usr/local/bin/php) You cannot specify an alternate config file from the shell invocation when being executed from suexec -- it will keep on reporting, "No input file specified" (which is an entirely separate issue.) There should be an option for the shell not to enter safe-mode, and it could be specified as part of the shell invocation line in the script, (ie #!/usr/local/bin/php --no-safe-mode) I think if some restriction control could be placed in the .ini file to restrict who is allowed to perform that function, that would safe enough. Bram -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=9516&edit=1