> At 06:09 PM 12/2/2004, you wrote: >>Execute permissions on directories means that users can change into the >>directory. It has no effect on whether the files inside are executable. >>Most versions of PHP write their session files to /tmp, so SquirrelMail >>will require it if that's how your PHP is setup. The data directory is >>where settings are kept. You need both directories to have the execute >>bit set so SquirrelMail can write files there. >> >>Seth. >>Scott Kopel said: >> > I have been using Squirrelmail for a few years with no problems. >> > I am currently using version 1.4.0 >> > imap server is uw webserver is apache 1.3.27 a few days ago I found in >> the >> > /tmp directory and executable file named "b" >> > ... which was owned by apache user >> > I couldn't tell what the file was doing so I deleted it and changed >> the >> > permissions to 666 on the /tmp directory.. ie not executable.. when I >> did >> > this I found that users couldn't login to squirrelmail so it seems >> that >> > squirrelmail requires apache to have execute permission on the /tmp >> and on >> > squrrrelmail/data directories. but in my case at least it seems that >> > apache can write to those files and execute whatever... can anyone >> shed >> > any light on this problem? is there anyway to run squirrelmail without >> > execute permission on the directories /tmp and squirrelmail/data? or >> is >> > there any way to keep apache from writing files to these directories >> and >> > executing them? thanks for any help > > when I turn on safe_mode in php.ini, I get the following error during SM > login attempt > > Error opening ../data/default_pref > Default preference file not found or not readable! > Please contact your system administrator and report this error. >
You must understand the way safe mode works. If file is not owned by same user, that owns script used to access file, safe mode denies access to file. http://www.php.net/features.safe-mode http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SafeMode -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/wiki.php?MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
