Unix Religion (7 comments)
I've been playing around with SuPHP at work lately. Our customers want to use PHP to develop web applications, but there are issues with the way PHP works in that by default in that what's being run isn't associated with the user who put the code there. PHP's safe mode takes care of all the issues we're seeing with keeping a given service's code from playing naughty with another services code, but that's not good enough. I need to set it up so the people who are putting the code on the system can't see each other's projects. I don't know why we can't trust the people who are paying us to provide a server environment except that trust doesn't fit our paradigm. Also, I'm not allowed to use Unix groups to restrict user-level access to a file tree. Why? the reasons appear to be purely religious. So I'm left investigating SuPHP and finding that it really doesn't work well on Solaris. But hey, I'm getting paid.
And then there's this. Seriously, what's wrong with japan?
