trying to run down an issue reported which i suspect an update clipped a pear library, library reference or permission as no code changes were dropped.

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function

posix_getpwuid() in /usr/share/pear/Crypt/GPG/Engine.php

is there a listing of the unsafe php functions for asl - is posix_getpwuid function considered a function that needs to be whitelisted?

php, 5.2.13
pear 1.7.2
include_path .:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php
safe_mode_include_dir /usr/share/pear

Nothing in ASL about that one

meh_,

A couple of ideas, do you have a "php-posix" package installed? If so, check check the permissions and ownership on the PHP code itself. I believe in your case it should be apache.apache.

Also, in case anyone using php 5.3, or 5.2.13 reads this, you need to install php-process.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the info about php-process.

Is it generally required / recommended for 5.2.13 and 5.3.x or only if your using php-pear?

Thanks much for the info Guys.

Package php-common-5.2.13-1.el5.art.i386 is installed

Tried also installing the php-posix package as it was not listed. Yum indicates already installed as part of
Package php-common-5.2.13-1.el5.art.i386

I'll dig into permissions to see if something got modified there. At /usr/share/pear everything is recursively owned by root.root.

actually, meant php-process is already installed as well on the second line of my post, to correct.

Is the function still missing?

Your other option would be to roll back to the version of PHP that had the function. You can do that with this command:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage /var/cache/yum/atomic/php-(whatever_version).rpm