On Fri, November 17, 2006 00:54, J.M.Roth wrote:
> Now if you would like to use safe mode, which is highly recommended on
> shared systems, you will have to put this file into
> safe_mode_include_dir (everyone will be able to read this file as
> permissions will no longer be checked) or disable safe mode for the webs
> that would like to use phpBB (and chown this script to www-data, more
> secure), but disabling safe mode for an untrusted web is not really an
> option.

Yes, but that is not specific at all to the phpbb package. We cannot fix
that problem here.

> Obviously another fix will need to be found here. I don't know why noone
> takes this buggy PHP stuff seriously.

The PHP developers themselves have stated that safe_mode cannot be trusted
to be truly secure; it will be removed in the next major upstream release.


Thijs


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