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From: evan at coeus-group.com (Evan Nemerson)
Subject: securing php

Take a look at the safe_mode and open_basedir configuration options for your 
php.ini.

http://www.php.net/features.safe-mode

Also, it may be worth it to look at using Apache with cygwin... Big performace 
hit, though.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/cygwin.html

-Evan



On Tuesday 19 August 2003 02:51 pm, Justin Shin wrote:
> Hi all --
>
> I have a friend that owns a web hosting company and recently he asked me to
> check up on his security ... I found that PHP scripts could access, modify,
> etc. anything on the drive. Of course, this is because PHP was invoked by
> apache, which is being run as a root user (Administrator, he runs apache on
> win2k3 for some odd reason) but I do not know the remedy. How could he set
> up his apache/PHP so that only the users of his web hosting service could
> "do stuff" to their own web directories. I know I am not explaining this
> well, but I think you get the picture :) I also know there is a simple
> solution to this, I googled it though and I couldn't find it.
>
> -- Justin
>
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