From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: Solaris 2.5 PHP version: 4.0.5 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Life of environment variable set by putenv() not documented well Visibility scope of the environment variables set by putenv() is not documented. It is important to know whether an environment variable set in one script can be seen from another script (served by the same Apache child, for example). http://php.net/manual/en/function.putenv.php I'm writing a secure application that passes user name and password in environment varialbles to a setuid C program, which checks the password against the shadow password file to authenticate users. It is crucial for me to know whether such approach has any security implications, derriving fromt the visibility scope of environment variables set in PHP. Many thanks, -- Arcady Genkin -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10970&edit=1 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
