On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Edin Kadribasic wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> 
> > I don't have the energy to do a cvs check, but I remember adding this
> > restriction years ago (php2 days) and then removing it (by commenting out
> > the check) ages ago as well. I'm not sure PHP4 ever had this check turned
> > on (the commented out check was ported to php4), so the documentation has
> > not reflected reality in a very long time.
> 
> I agree that this change is going to break a lot of code. Some of it is my 
> own :)
> 
> I suggest that we always populate $PHP_AUTH_USER since that one has no 
> security consequences and the information is awailable elsewhere 
> ($_SERVER['REMOTE_USER']). $PHP_AUTH_PW should be set when there are no 
> safe_mode/open_basedir restrctions in effects.
> 
> Would this solution be satisfactory to everyone?

Perfectly fine with me. 

Derick

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