Source: suphp Section: web Priority: optional Maintainer: Emmanuel Lacour Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7), apache2-prefork-dev (>= 2.2.0), apache2-mpm-prefork (>= 2.2.0) | apache2-mpm-worker (>= 2.2.0), libapr1-dev, docbook-to-man, pkg-config, dpatch Standards-Version: 3.8.2 Package: suphp-common Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, php4-cgi | php5-cgi Description: Common files for mod suphp Suphp consists of an Apache module (mod_suphp for either Apache 1.3.x or Apache 2.x) and a setuid root binary (suphp) that is called by the Apache module to change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter to the owner of the php script. Package: libapache2-mod-suphp Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, suphp-common (= ${binary:Version}), apache2.2-common Description: Apache2 module to run php scripts with the owner permissions With the use of the suphp setuid root binary (from suphp-common package), this Apache2 module change the uid of the process executing the PHP interpreter to the owner of the php script