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Didn't we have this back in 2001. I seems to remember that we kicked a guy of our project because he installed one of the PHP consoles on our Solaris box, which

Didn't we have this back in 2001. I seems to remember that we kicked a guy of our project because he installed one of the PHP consoles on our Solaris box, which basically gave it the same rights as the Apache user.

aarondf 2y ago
Not sure, I was 12
- codetrotter 2y ago
  11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was. I did encounter, and try, Linux much sooner. But didn’t really “get it” either at the time. Like, I understood that it was neat and different. I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it. It would take all until the age of 18, when I started at the university, before I got the help I needed in order to understand Linux and editing config files on Linux and writing my own scripts and programs on Linux.
  - johnisgood 2y ago
    > I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it. It was Gentoo for me at the age of 13 that a random Hungarian guy from Finland helped install through SSH. I did try SUSE around the age of 11, nothing interesting though, the interesting stuff came after Gentoo. :D
jamal-kumar 2y ago
It's still a mainstay of certain malware for sure. Just pop in 'php shell' to your favorite search engine, and it's basically all stuff for either red teaming or shenanigans
cship2 2y ago
To be fair in 2001 php was the underdog of tech stack. It has just got ride of the PHP (Personal Home Page) taste in the language mouth. So wouldn't be surprised if some company running solaris would kick him off.
- bshacklett 2y ago
  Interesting. I remember php being on top at that time, with JSP just starting to take over. I was in a rural area, though, and our local developers were far more influential than any internet community during that period.

aarondf 2y ago

Not sure, I was 12

codetrotter 2y ago
11 at the time here. For me it would be another 10 years or so before I saw a Solaris box or even knew what one was. I did encounter, and try, Linux much sooner. But didn’t really “get it” either at the time. Like, I understood that it was neat and different. I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it. It would take all until the age of 18, when I started at the university, before I got the help I needed in order to understand Linux and editing config files on Linux and writing my own scripts and programs on Linux.
- johnisgood 2y ago
  > I installed Mandriva Linux on my machine when I was 13 or 14 or so, but I was lacking any books or guidance to understand how to do anything aside from opening the GUI programs that was on it. It was Gentoo for me at the age of 13 that a random Hungarian guy from Finland helped install through SSH. I did try SUSE around the age of 11, nothing interesting though, the interesting stuff came after Gentoo. :D

jamal-kumar 2y ago

It's still a mainstay of certain malware for sure. Just pop in 'php shell' to your favorite search engine, and it's basically all stuff for either red teaming or shenanigans

cship2 2y ago

To be fair in 2001 php was the underdog of tech stack. It has just got ride of the PHP (Personal Home Page) taste in the language mouth. So wouldn't be surprised if some company running solaris would kick him off.

bshacklett 2y ago
Interesting. I remember php being on top at that time, with JSP just starting to take over. I was in a rural area, though, and our local developers were far more influential than any internet community during that period.