Re: Access rights for php files on Linux?

Use include files to pass your authentication information. <? include('auth.php'); ?> auth.php: <? $username="foo"; $password="bar"; ?> put auth.php in your home directory with you as owner and apache group id as group, or create a group that contains you and apache user (probably 'nobody'). $> chmod 740 /your/home/dir/auth.php On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Daniel Fassnauer wrote: > Well, I have encounterd a problem which is quite big (for me), so I hope > I find help here. > My setup is a Linux Machine, running Apache with php as a module. > In order for the webserver to parse the file, i have to give read > permission to world. > This is a problem, because about 100 people have shell access and could > then just cat /www/myphpfile.php, and would thus get passwords which i > dont want to share (like mysql password in the phpmyadmin config file) > and general access to my code. Also, the different users on the machine > want to be able to host php files with everyone else being able to read > them. Is there any way i can actually do that? > I must say that i am rather new to all this stuff, so i am really > confused as what to do, and i would appreciate any help.. > Thanks in advance... > > Daniel > > >