[SM-USERS] "You must be logged in to access this page" Error Overcome

[Bill McFadden]

A couple of days ago I finally sat down to install/configure squirrelmail. Prior to doing anything I surfed around the the SM webpage. I noticed that a number of people were having problems logging in. So I started.

First of all I did not have PHP installed so I commenced with that. I had some difficulty getting that to run properly with a rpm that I got off of rpmfind.net. So I ended up using a tar file off of php.net.
So my system looks like this:
Linux 7.2
php-4.0.6-7
sendmail-8.11.6-3
squirrelmail-1.2.9-1.7.x
apache-1.3.22-6

Once everything was installed much to my dismay I ended up with the "You must be logged in to access this page" error.

I searched squirrelmail.com, the linux newsgroups for several hours trying to figure out what was wrong. I ended up reading on this mailing list that sombody had to change the register_globals to off in the php.ini.

Once I tried that I was able to log into SM. There was a bit of discussion wrt turning this off with the impression I got this was not a good thing. However, in the php.ini it says that scripts should be written so that you can have register-globals turned off that if you are Using form variables as globals can easily lead to possible security problems.

In addition to the posting I was reading, which was really buried in the arcives, it said by turning the register_globals to off that it broke other things in php for various add-ons. Solution for that was to put a .htaccess in the webmail directory with the following setting:
php_flag register_globals Off and reset php.ini back to original with register_global settings on.
I tried this however, it didn't work.
I found the original post and here is the url:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1258330&forum_id=2995

My long question is with register_globals turned off in php.ini how much difficulty am I going to have installing the various plugins or should it be ok the way it is...one option of course is to leave things they way they are and not to install plugins but there is no fun in that

Bill


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