PHP 4.0 Bug #10065 Updated: User Impersonation

ID: 10065 Updated by: hholzgra Reported By: wizaerd@wizaerd.com Old-Status: Open Status: Closed Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Assigned To: Comments: this is a webserver topic and nothing php itself can control as it inherits the user settings from the webserver it runs in or is started from when run as cgi you have some control via apaches suexec(?) config options but unless you run php cgi as root (which is a very bad idea IMHO) there is no way to have PHP itself control the process user settings Previous Comments: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001-03-29 16:33:53] wizaerd@wizaerd.com It's be nice to be able to run a PHP script as a specific user, perhaps a user specified user. It would have to authenticate username and password, but then instead of CHMODding our directories and files for file uploads, an upload script could behave as the owner of those directories... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATTENTION! Do NOT reply to this email! To reply, use the web interface found at http://bugs.php.net/?id=10065&edit=2