run PHP with user's permissions

[Florian Effenberger]

Hi there,

I want to run PHP on my Apache 2.2 machine with the permission of the
VSite or user invoking the script.

Right now, I do it via the kernel binfmt support and suEXEC, so my
scripts run as CGI. This leads to some problems, like memory and CPU
consumption for the PHP binary instead of a module, and problems when
several users should edit a PHP file - suEXEC only allows write
permission for the owner.

Is there any other way of achieving this, maybe more elegant?

Thanks!
Florian

[C.]

Re: run PHP with user's permissions

On 27 Jun, 16:58, Florian Effenberger <flo...@arcor.d ewrote:

Hi there,
>
I want to run PHP on my Apache 2.2 machine with the permission of the
VSite or user invoking the script.
>
Right now, I do it via the kernel binfmt support and suEXEC, so my
scripts run as CGI.

It'd be real hard to find a way to work around that problem.

This leads to some problems, like memory and CPU
consumption for the PHP binary instead of a module, and problems when
several users should edit a PHP file - suEXEC only allows write
permission for the owner.
>

http://www.suphp.org

C.

[Andrew Hutchings]

Re: run PHP with user's permissions

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Hi there,
>
I want to run PHP on my Apache 2.2 machine with the permission of the
VSite or user invoking the script.
>

Is there any other way of achieving this, maybe more elegant?

You can try suPHP: http://www.suphp.org/Home.html

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[Florian Effenberger]

Re: run PHP with user's permissions

Hi there,

thanks for your help! I once read about suPHP but never tried it out.
Tested it yesterday, and it seems to be a good solution for my
problem! I just have to check whether it's secure enough or not. :-)

Florian