Hello everybody, I use httpd 2.0.51 together with PHP5 module. Httpd is started as root. The child processes are then started less privileged (User, Group). When I run a PHP script that executes a program on the server, this program would like to access data in the users home directory. To get the directory's location, the program evaluates $HOME environment variable. But $HOME now does not point to the home directory of the less privileged user that httpd switched to, it points to '/root', which is the home directory of the user that _initially_ started httpd. The result is a less privileged process trying to access root's home directory, which does not work. Running a PHP script executing 'phpinfo()' and looking at section 'Environment' (not 'Apache environment') also shows $HOME to be equal to '/root'. Can I change anything in httpd's configuration so the environment variables get the values for the less privileged user or is this something to change at compile time or even in PHP? many thanks, ------------------------- Felix --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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