php3-list | 199908

Re: [PHP3] "suexec" for php? From: Sandino Araico Sanchez (sandino <email protected>)
Date: 08/12/99

mhi Internet Services wrote:

> This is not what we want to do
>
> We want build a Web based serveradministration GUI.
>
>

In a Web based serveradministration GUI the part responsible for starting and
stopping processes and editing configuration files and other actions which need
suexec privileges is very small compared to the rest of the web application and
can be done using small cgi applications written in C (or whatever you prefer)
in such a way that only these very small and specialized applications have
suexec privileges to do their job and the rest of the site can still run in
PHP.

In that way you improve your server security in a better way than giving suexec
privileges to PHP.

I don't see any reason why PHP can't co-exist with CGI; each technology has
it's strengths and weaknesses. 

--
Sandino Araico Sánchez
El envejecimiento de las células puede estar provocado por
el contínuo desgaste de los telómeros en cada mitosis.

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