php environment array

[Ron Croonenberg]

Hello,

I don't know that much about php but I was asked this question :

we have a testbox running Linux, Apache-1-3-29 and PHP/4.3.4

echo "<b>ENV</b><br>";
foreach($_ENV as $Name1=>$Key1)
{ echo $Name1." is: ".$Key1."<br>";
}

when this is executed it says somewhere that the logname is root.

However the apache server is running under the uid apache and group apache.

I suspected that when this is executed it would say that the logname is
apache or am I wrong assuming that ?

thanks,

Ron

[Pedro Graca]

Ron Croonenberg wrote:

we have a testbox running Linux, Apache-1-3-29 and PHP/4.3.4

echo "<b>ENV</b><br>";
foreach($_ENV as $Name1=>$Key1)
{ echo $Name1." is: ".$Key1."<br>";
}

when this is executed it says somewhere that the logname is root.

I don't have that environment variable.
[ Debian GNU/Linux; Apache 1.3.29; php 4.3.3 ]
When I run phpinfo() Apache User/Group is "www-data" as expected.
If I do

$ ps aux|grep apache|grep -v grep

I get returned

root 1021 0.0 0.3 143764 1304 ? S Feb10 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data 1049 0.0 1.1 144056 4544 ? S Feb10 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache
....
(lots more "www-data")
--
--= my mail box only accepts =--
--= Content-Type: text/plain =--
--= Size below 10001 bytes =--

[Ron Croonenberg]

Here's an excerpt of the script I use :

<?php //preprocessing of form data

echo "<b>ENV</b><br>";
foreach($_ENV as $Name1=>$Key1)
{ echo $Name1." is: ".$Key1."<br>";
}
?>
I think it is supposed to run on any php/apache combination.

Ron

Pedro Graca wrote:

Ron Croonenberg wrote:

we have a testbox running Linux, Apache-1-3-29 and PHP/4.3.4

echo "<b>ENV</b><br>";
foreach($_ENV as $Name1=>$Key1)
{ echo $Name1." is: ".$Key1."<br>";
}

when this is executed it says somewhere that the logname is root.

I don't have that environment variable.
[ Debian GNU/Linux; Apache 1.3.29; php 4.3.3 ]
When I run phpinfo() Apache User/Group is "www-data" as expected.
If I do

$ ps aux|grep apache|grep -v grep

I get returned

root 1021 0.0 0.3 143764 1304 ? S Feb10 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data 1049 0.0 1.1 144056 4544 ? S Feb10 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache
...
(lots more "www-data")