RE: [PHP] -----s--- bit

If you would like to access /etc/shadow, you probaly make a new extension that interfaces PAM. Is there PAM extensoin for PHP4?? already??. I also would like to get one if there is. -- Yasuo Ohgaki

Hi, Why do you want to access /etc/shadow from your PHP?. As a general rules of thumb that's a pretty bad idea. The reason for this is that /etc/shadow is owned by Root and it's *should* only be readable by Root and noone else. Now in answer to your question "Why your PHP" script can't read /etc/shadow is that if you're PHP script is running as Apache module (or even a stand alone CGI). Your User ID would most likely *not* be Root. Thus you are not allowed to read the /etc/shadow. You are able to fix this by running the Apache process as Root! THIS IS A VERY VERY bad idea but possible nonetheless as it is a huge security hazard. To configure Apache to run as Root, check out Apache doc HTH. Hi, I am running apache server as user/group=apache/httpd And want to access the shadow file to authenticate my users from the system. shadow file is owned by root and chmod to 400. server-root:/5:28pm>ls -al /etc/shadow

-r--------   1 root     sys         27695 Feb 22 10:06 /etc/shadow

I can access the shadow from cgi-bin / c code by giving the chmod +s bit . -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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