Re: chroot(): _not_ safe-mode restricted?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 teo@gecadsoftware.com wrote: > Hi jeroen! > On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, jeroen@php.net wrote: > > > As I read it in CVS, chroot() will work even in safe-mode. Isn't this a bad > > idea(tm), or am I wrong? > > If users can chroot in safe-mode, Apache won't serve any more pages after > > all children have been chrooted to an empty dir? > > uhm, where have you read that? [ curious ] > nope, cause it will run as apache user, and you have to be root to chroot(). Indeed, chroot() doesn't make sense at all if it's used in a webserver module. It's onyl useful when PHP runs as commandline tool, as root. That's why I added the function. Derick > > -- teodor > >