Re: Re: Problems with open_basedir

Colin Guthrie wrote:

Well, I was never sure that it was a bug or not. I wasn't sure if it was my distro's packaging and any custom patches it applies and also where it was some x86_64 wierdness. Recently (last week) it was confirmed to me that it was not x86_64 at fault, but it was still my distro. It now looks like you're snarled by the same bug. Assuming you're not using Mandriva 2007, then I think this should be classified as a bug or regression. It could be that a security bug relating to symlinks was fixed (symlink attacks are a common vector for security issues to present themselves), and this had the inadvertant effect of causing this problem. I remeber some time ago that I looked for other people with the same issue on google etc. but came up blank. It's probably worth submitting a bug to PHP now so that the devs can comment on it. For me it's not too important as my setup was just local development on my machine (and I used symlinks to make it look like the production filesystem layout). I was albe to easly adapt my local system to work without symlinks. However, I also use a complex symlink setup on our production servers for a number of Joomla installs. (I use symlinks such that I only have one copy of the joomla source to make updating it much easier :)). We have not yet deployed PHP 5.1.6 there and I suspect I'll get bitten again by this problem. If you have the time to post a bug I'd appreciate it, if not please let me know and I'll do it. All the best. Col. Thanks a lot for your answer.

I've seen this issue on a few machines that we run and all of them are different versions of FreeBSD. This particular problem occured on a FreeBSD 5.4 machine. I'm quite eager to get this to work, our machines are all production boxes with a least couple of hundred users on machines where this issue occurs. I will try to post the bug and see what happends. Thanks again, -Patrik