Re: [PHP-DEV] why the damn phpinfo() is so talkative? + answers From: Jason Greene (usrgre-php <email protected>)
Date: 10/20/00

Those variables prevent setting _not_ viewing

-Jason
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From: "Teodor Cimpoesu" <teo <email protected>>
To: <php-dev <email protected>>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] why the damn phpinfo() is so talkative? + answers

> Hi Jason!
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jason Greene wrote:
>
> > I agree with what your saying, though I do agree that hosted customers seeing certain environment variables can be undesireable.
> > What do you think about a safe mode ini setting that could block certain "sensative" vars from being read?
> there is already something like this, see:
>
> safe_mode_allowed_env_vars
> safe_mode_protected_env_vars
>
> options your php.ini.
>
> As for the original post, when you start Apache it inherits all your
> environment, this is how the programs work least on *nix.
>
> If you don't want that, use the magic `env' program like this:
>
> # /usr/bin/env -i /opt/apache/sbin/httpd
>
> (with your env and httpd paths, of course).
> The -i options `clears' the environ so the httpd process starts w/o
> inheriting anything.
>
> -- teodor
>
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