CGI / Apache module session permissions

Hello, To perform a certain task I have to run one of my PHP scripts as a CGI, which works fine except that the CGI doesn't have permissions to my sessions that were saved running under the Apache module. I expected different permissions, but I thought my user would have /more/ permission to those files than the PHP user since they're saved under my account.. Since I'm moving the user to a secure server with this script I want to start a new session anyway, but I at least need to read in the old session. ideas anyone? I do pass the script the SID so could I manually change the permissions on the session file? Any advice on transfering a session variable to a 2nd session? Thanks for any help.. Please CC me as I'm on digest.. Running Linux, shared-hosting :( Apache module: PHP 4.1.2 CGI module: PHP 4.0.6 :( Steve -- steve@mrclay.org ** http://mrclay.org