Bart wrote: > > > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Bart wrote: >>> >>> >>> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>>> Bart wrote: >>>>> Well, life is not that black and white, luckily ;) >>>>> >>>>> Try authenticating with PHP to MySQL using certificates. That won't >>>>> work with the current PHP release shipped with RHEL/CentOS. There's >>>>> a bug in PHP 5.1 and it's fixed in 5.2. Since this is not a >>>>> security bug, but just missing (of wrongly implemented) >>>>> functionality, it's probably not going to be back ported. >>>>> >>>>> Since certificates (and PKI) are a pretty hot item these days, an >>>>> upgrade can be very useful. >>>>> >>>>> Just an idea that upgrading is not always about having the latest >>>>> and greatest.. ;) >>>> >>>> Did you file a bug that says, hey ... your php is broken like this, >>>> here is what it will not do ? >>>> >>>> If so, what is the upstream bug so I can track it ... if not, why >>>> not :D >>>> >>> No, we did not ;) We opened a Service Request at RHEL, and asked them >>> if php bug #37620 will be fixed, or if they will upgrade to php 5.2. >>> The response we got was that RH is selling RH Application Stack v2, >>> which does include php 5.2. And they asked us if there is an CVEs >>> related to this bug.. >>> >>> Bottom line was.. either buy the application stack, or hand over the >>> CVEs. Since this bug is not security related, there is no CVEs. >> >> Is this what you are talking about??? >> >> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=37620 >> >> and if so, explain how that affects PKI authorization and I will be >> glad to file a bug and make lots of community noise ... >> >> Or if you would, file a bug on bugs.centos.org that explains exactly >> how pki cna not be used with php and I will file an upstream bug to >> see if they will fix it. >> >> Now, they will not fix every bug, but non-functional PKI is one I >> think that they will address. >> > > Thanks! I'll get back on this tomorrow (time for sleep now!).. > > Do you mind if I mail the details directly to you? > Directly to me is fine, yes. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080115/2cc2562e/attachment-0005.sig>