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Bug #4223 PHP calls MySQL with apache user instead of connected user
Submitted: 2000-04-24 03:04 UTC Modified: 2002-05-26 13:40 UTC
From: louis at sitebysite dot nl Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: MySQL related
PHP Version: 4.0 Release Cand OS: RedHat 6.1
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-04-24 03:04 UTC] louis at sitebysite dot nl 
This is hard to reproduce, but every once in a while PHP tries to use the
user running apache instead of the user specified in mysql_pconnect() to
query MySQL.  So after a pconnect with user X, you get a "access denied
for user www" from the query. Our config is a dual-processor webserver
and dual-processor MySQL machine.  With low traffic, it does not occur.  
It also appears to occur only when using write locks on tables, but I 
can't positively verify that - only that I haven't seen it happen on sites
not using table locks, yet.

PHP configured with:
./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs --with-mysql=/usr --enable-track-vars --with-gd=../gd1.4 --with-ttf --without-pcre-regex --with-mm=../mm-1.0.12 --enable-inline-optimization --disable-debug --with-recode --with-t1lib --with-dbase

Also running the Zend optimizer for RC1.

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 [2000-07-30 13:52 UTC] zak@php.net 
** Warning - uneducated guess **

This seems like it might be a mysql configuration issue.

Please review the MySQL documentation on performance - try increasing the max number of connections, etc...

Also, what user does you web server run as - www by chance?
 [2000-07-30 17:07 UTC] zak@php.net 
User response:
"As far as I can gather it has something to do with the
wait_timeout of MySQL.  This was set pretty low.  I think
the persistent connections outlived the connections on the
database side during quiet periods.  The error doesn't
seem to appear if I up this timeout or bring down the
life span of the apache child processes.  Is there a
way to set a timeout on the persistent connections
on the php side?  That would enable one to match it
against the MySQL timeout and make sure it never happens."
 [2000-08-08 22:30 UTC] waldschrott@php.net 
I don?t kwno any way, moving to feature request
 [2002-04-27 13:26 UTC] jimw@php.net 
this isn't a feature request.
 [2002-05-26 13:40 UTC] derick@php.net 
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