Re: php4 safe mode, another question

> Is it possible to use all features of safe mode, but without > the restriction of not beeing able to access files belonging to > another user? This restriction prevents any PHP script from I think not, unless you want to alter the PHP source code and compile your own. You may want to consider using PHP as a CGI with suExec (http://apache.org) instead -- at some loss of performance. Another option would be to switch from Apache to fhttpd which I think would let you run PHP as a module under a different user ID -- Or wait for Apache 2.0 which is rumored to have that feature... > What is btw the reason, why safe mode restricts access to > files belonging to the same owner as the calling script itself? Large-scale ISPs install one PHP whole-sale on all their virtual hosts -- Thus the owner of the PHP files is the client they want to keep in their own sandbox.