permission accessing via file()

[PenguinsAnonymous]

Need to access a single text file for read
only where it resides using file().
To test the code I copied it local because
I got "permission denied" message where it
exists.
Any safe solutions?
TIA
-Walt

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[Alan Little]

Carved in mystic runes upon the very living rock, the last words of of
comp.lang.php make plain:

Need to access a single text file for read
only where it resides using file().
To test the code I copied it local because
I got "permission denied" message where it
exists.
Any safe solutions?

You must either modify the permissions on the file, or run your script
through a wrapper or under suexec.

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Alan Little
Phorm PHP Form Processor
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[PenguinsAnonymous]

PenguinsAnonymous wrote:

Need to access a single text file for read
only where it resides using file().
To test the code I copied it local because
I got "permission denied" message where it
exists.

missing info:
php-4.2.2-17.2
httpd-2.0.40-21.3b
Linux nebula 2.4.20-8dcustom #5 Thu May 22 01:37:13 EDT 2003 ppc ppc ppc
GNU/Linux
Text file deep several directories in a /home/<user> dir.

Someone must know about security and permission problems ??
:)

-Walt
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[Daniel Bengs]

PenguinsAnonymous wrote:

PenguinsAnonymous wrote:

Need to access a single text file for read
only where it resides using file().
To test the code I copied it local because
I got "permission denied" message where it
exists.

missing info:
php-4.2.2-17.2
httpd-2.0.40-21.3b
Linux nebula 2.4.20-8dcustom #5 Thu May 22 01:37:13 EDT 2003 ppc ppc ppc
GNU/Linux
Text file deep several directories in a /home/<user> dir.

Make sure that the webserver can access this directory, and that it has
permissions to read the file.