It you're running Apache, you could use a .htaccess file and change the
php setting there.

Seth.
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>
> I recently had someone deface the website on my server and one of the
> vulnerablities they used to upload a rootkit, was from a php website on
> my server that allowed file uploads to /tmp.  There were other unrelated
> vulnerablities that allowed them to actually run the rootkit.
>
> Anyway as a result, to prevent users from hosting php code that allows
> file uploads w/o my knowing, i disabled file uploads in my php.ini
> files. You can guess my problem -- now no users can attach files to
> their squirrelmail emails. Note that the squirrelmail code is pretty
> secure because the attachment directory is not world-readable like /tmp
> is.
>
> My question: Is there ANY way to selectively allow file uploads from a
> select group of php files (e.g. squirrelmail) while restricting it for
> all other php scripts?
>
> Or is there another creative solution to my problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Durwood
>
>
>
>
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