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minus-squareRexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year ago Hint ls -ld /var/log drwxrwxr-x 18 root syslog 4096 Aug 11 08:13 /var/log
minus-squarehemko@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThat seems so obvious I think we’re missing something
minus-squareRexelpitlum@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year 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-up5·1 year agoForgive me my ignorance, but since Apache is running as root, couldn’t PHP inherit it’s permissions?
minus-squarelawrence@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year 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-up4·1 year agoOr PHP runs in its own fastcgi like process under a different account.
Hint
ls -ld /var/log drwxrwxr-x 18 root syslog 4096 Aug 11 08:13 /var/logThat seems so obvious I think we’re missing something
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.