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How can I run user PHP scripts as their own UID?

Jun 8th, 1999 07:00
Nathan Wallace, Samuel J Liddicott, Alex Belits


You could run php as a fastcgi module, and be nearly as fastas if you were a module.  See: http://www.fastcgi.com/fhttpd has modules that run as user because it can dedicate process to serve subset of URLs, and run process as user's userid until some timeout expires.