Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP 4.0b3 released

>> Remember, this was a response to Mark's comments about setting up >> shared libraries that _all_ VirtualHosts share. That what I'm talking about - you can have several httpd's (each with one's own VirtualHosts), and serveral setups. And none of them can be controlled by root. In fact, the "root" user notion, as a jack-of-all-trades, is rather unsuccessful. You really need no superuser access to be able to install a PHP library. And it shouldn't be linked to any particular user. In fact, you are proposing to make shared library directory and make PHP guess that the file is indeed a legal shared library by it's owner. I propose to say just what you mean - that you want this directory to be shared library directory, and let permissions and owners to go their way. To make a long story short - the difference between my scheme and your scheme is that you propose to identify which files user may require by owner of these files, while I propose much more flexible method - by location (or locations) of these files. My scheme fully contains yours - if you make that dir root-owned (one simple chown -R), you get exactly the same. But in my way you can get a number of those directories, and control who has access to them in a way it was designed in the OS, not making everything shared root-owned. root has too much things on it already, anyway. And the last point - with UID approach PHP now should remember both UID of the owner of the currently parsed script and UID of the owner of the original script - or you will instantly get access to all root-owned files. I imagine this would be harder to implement than the notion of "system library". -- Stanislav Malyshev Zend Technologies Ltd. stas@zend.com http://www.zend.com/ 050-624945