I am trying to set up a small internal web server for student use. The idea is that

the subjects who create web pages can then upload (via sftp) the pages to each users

home area on the server.

I have this working, using winbind, pam_skel and apache set with Home dirs on, all on a SuSE 8.2

box.

What I want to add now is mysql & php support. The idea being that we can give them a sample php

script (say a questionnaire script for data handling), which their class mates can complete, and then

the results can be read out of mysql probably via phpmyadm.

However, I read that there are security problems with php if multiple users run scripts on the webserver,

which run as the web server user.

How do others cope with this problem?

Any suggestions greatly received!

Rob Keeling

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