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minus-squareRexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoWhatever, we have a suspect. Bring in GDB to do the interrogation! And perhaps also call Nice, he can play the good cop…
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoForgive me my ignorance, but since Apache is running as root, couldn’t PHP inherit it’s permissions?
minus-squarelawrence@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoThe Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn’t run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.
minus-squarejollyrogue@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoOr PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.
Whatever, we have a suspect.
Bring in GDB to do the interrogation! And perhaps also call Nice, he can play the good cop…
Forgive me my ignorance, but since Apache is running as root, couldn’t PHP inherit it’s permissions?
The Apache main process runs as root. When it receives a request, it spawns a child process that doesn’t run as root. PHP runs as the same user as the Apache child process.
Or PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.