My company is leasing a server from Interland, which is a very large
web hosting company. I assume Interland knows how to set up a BSD
server with the usual add-ons, including PHP. But when I run
phpinfo(), I get information that makes it seem like PHP is running as
root. Isn't this a security problem?
This is some of the info I'm getting back from phpinfo():
Additional Modules
Environment
USER root
HOME /root
ORIG_HOME /root
LOGNAME root
TERM vt100
PATH /bin:/usr/bin
CALLER root
CALLER_HOME /root
SUPERCMD apachectl_1.3.2 2_2.8.5
IFS
ORIG_USER root
ORIG_LOGNAME root
PHP Variables
HTTP_SERVER_VAR S["argc"] 0
HTTP_ENV_VARS["USER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["HOME"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_HOME"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["LOGNAME"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["TERM"] vt100
HTTP_ENV_VARS["PATH"] /bin:/usr/bin
HTTP_ENV_VARS["CALLER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["CALLER_HOM E"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["SUPERCMD"] apachectl_1.3.2 2_2.8.5
HTTP_ENV_VARS["IFS"]
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_USER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_LOGNA ME"] root
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lawrence wrote: My company is leasing a server from Interland, which is a very large
web hosting company. I assume Interland knows how to set up a BSD
server with the usual add-ons, including PHP. But when I run
phpinfo(), I get information that makes it seem like PHP is running as
root. Isn't this a security problem?
That looks bad... Try creating a directory at the "/" level. If you can
do that, then you can do about anything....
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lawrence wrote: My company is leasing a server from Interland, which is a very large
web hosting company. I assume Interland knows how to set up a BSD
server with the usual add-ons, including PHP. But when I run
phpinfo(), I get information that makes it seem like PHP is running as
root. Isn't this a security problem?
This is some of the info I'm getting back from phpinfo():
Additional Modules
Environment
USER root
HOME /root
ORIG_HOME /root
LOGNAME root
TERM vt100
PATH /bin:/usr/bin
CALLER root
CALLER_HOME /root
SUPERCMD apachectl_1.3.2 2_2.8.5
IFS
ORIG_USER root
ORIG_LOGNAME root
PHP Variables
HTTP_SERVER_VAR S["argc"] 0
HTTP_ENV_VARS["USER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["HOME"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_HOME"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["LOGNAME"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["TERM"] vt100
HTTP_ENV_VARS["PATH"] /bin:/usr/bin
HTTP_ENV_VARS["CALLER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["CALLER_HOM E"] /root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["SUPERCMD"] apachectl_1.3.2 2_2.8.5
HTTP_ENV_VARS["IFS"]
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_USER"] root
HTTP_ENV_VARS["ORIG_LOGNA ME"] root
Welll, that looks really neat!
Just launch a script execing shutdown -h 0 and see what happens.
Houston, that is not good, I repeat not good
Without wanting to feed an urban myth, xs4all, among the bigger providers
here in the Netherlands also hardly seem to have a clue about a lot of what
even I call straightforward stuff.
Perhaps though this is a chrooted environment ? Not too familiar with all
its intricacies, but I guess it could be possible to make it seem like a
regular root ? But maybe I am babbling as well. I often am, they say ;-)
If this is truely a root environment I'd feel rather awkward, knowing the
userbase of these big players.
Good luck with that, and have a ball while you're at it! (and keep us
posted!)
Pjotr
"Pjotr Wedersteers" <x3****@westert erp.com> wrote in message news:<41******* *************** *@news.xs4all.n l>... lawrence wrote: My company is leasing a server from Interland, which is a very large
web hosting company. I assume Interland knows how to set up a BSD
server with the usual add-ons, including PHP. But when I run
phpinfo(), I get information that makes it seem like PHP is running as
root. Isn't this a security problem?
.... Welll, that looks really neat!
Just launch a script execing shutdown -h 0 and see what happens.
Houston, that is not good, I repeat not good
I'll give that a try later today.
Perhaps though this is a chrooted environment ? Not too familiar with all
its intricacies, but I guess it could be possible to make it seem like a
regular root ? But maybe I am babbling as well. I often am, they say ;-)
What does chrooted mean?
By the way, I just had PHP create a directory and the owner of the
directory was listed as "nobody". What to conclude? Or, better, what
to test?
On 6 Aug 2004 11:40:49 -0700, lk******@geocit ies.com (lawrence) wrote: "Pjotr Wedersteers" <x3****@westert erp.com> wrote in message news:<41******* *************** *@news.xs4all.n l>... lawrence wrote: > My company is leasing a server from Interland, which is a very large
> web hosting company. I assume Interland knows how to set up a BSD
> server with the usual add-ons, including PHP. But when I run
> phpinfo(), I get information that makes it seem like PHP is running as
> root. Isn't this a security problem? ... Welll, that looks really neat!
Just launch a script execing shutdown -h 0 and see what happens.
Houston, that is not good, I repeat not good
I'll give that a try later today.
Perhaps though this is a chrooted environment ? Not too familiar with all
its intricacies, but I guess it could be possible to make it seem like a
regular root ? But maybe I am babbling as well. I often am, they say ;-)
What does chrooted mean?
It means the directory structure is made to appear that you're in one
place (like / ) when you're really in another ( like /usr/yourname >
and the directories like bin, etc and lib show up with only the
commands you can run.
By the way, I just had PHP create a directory and the owner of the
directory was listed as "nobody". What to conclude? Or, better, what
to test?
nobody is the userid assigned to the web server by default.
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