Re: new security related directive for php-4.3.4

From: Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:06:25 +0000
Subject: Re: new security related directive for php-4.3.4
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On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > > > > Because it would break BC. When these options were developed Apache 2 was not > > around and fastcgi support was flimsy at best. Using plain CGI (which MANY > > ISPs use) to run PHP is quite resource intensive. > > Ilia, come back to reality man! Are you really suggesting that people use > Apache2 with the perchild MPM to solve this problem? There is also something as mod_suid: http://www.jdimedia.nl/igmar/mod_suid/ (note, Apache only starts as root, the requests are not handled as root of course). Derick

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