PHP Suhosin patch

[DerFalk]

Will there be a php-suhosin-0.9.27 package for centos5?

[scott]

sure, I added it to the list

[DerFalk]

thanx a lot

[polarapfel]

Hi there,

I stumbled across the atomicrocketturtle repository and I really like it. So, many thanks for that!

Concerning suhosin, what exactly do I need to install from the repository to have PHP with suhosin enabled and the corresponding facilities in Apache?

thanks for your concern,

polarapfel

[scott]

its built as a module against the 5.2.9 tree, so you'd just need to install it with "yum install php-suhosin". That should get all the 5.2.9 updates along with it

[polarapfel]

Now that's convenient. Anything else I need to do in Apache?

Thanks,

polarapfel

[scott]

Only if you're going from php4 to php5, theres a wiki page for it here: http://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.php/PHP

[polarapfel]

Thanks a lot. I feel safer already!

[nobody]

Do you suggest running suhosin ?

And what are if there are any disadvantages or problems that can be caused by it ?

Also hardened php projexts suggests that you use along with suhosion the hardening patch as well. Do you consider using this patch in the upgrade rpms in the feature ?

Regards

[scott]

Its not a silver bullet, one of the things I dont like about it is that is executes php the same way fastcgi does. For someone else thats probably a good thing, I dont like it because it uses more resources. That being said it does give you much more granular control over what PHP can do.

And yes, we're going to look at trying out the hardened PHP patch in combination with PHP 5.3. Early on when I played with it, it broke modular PHP support which was an issue if you wanted to use things like ioncube or zend. That was years ago and I havent gone back to look at it since then.

[nobody]

Its not a silver bullet, one of the things I dont like about it is that is executes php the same way fastcgi does. For someone else thats probably a good thing, I dont like it because it uses more resources. That being said it does give you much more granular control over what PHP can do.

And yes, we're going to look at trying out the hardened PHP patch in combination with PHP 5.3. Early on when I played with it, it broke modular PHP support which was an issue if you wanted to use things like ioncube or zend. That was years ago and I havent gone back to look at it since then.

True. But in shared hosting you can't have it all. I believe its better to consume a few more resources than wondering when the next script will make the server slow or crash.

They claim to be working smoothly with zend and ioncube in their website when I read their documentation.

[scott]

Thats good to hear, honestly the last time I applied it was probably 4.3. The timing for bring this up is good, since the discussion was just opened up on supporting 5.3.x in the repo.