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Special Forums Cybersecurity Editing motd Post 12862 by thehoghunter on Tuesday 8th of January 2002 09:19:37 AM
Old 01-08-2002
The permissions on the file were correct before you changed them (if you are running Solaris).

As far as getting nothing into the file, check the ownership. Make sure you are root when you edit the file. If you can't seem to edit the file, then you can always copy contents of one file to it (cp ./mynew.motd /etc/motd ) as root. Insure you check that the permissions are correct afterwards.
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STREAM_SOCKET_ENABLE_CRYPTO(3)						 1					    STREAM_SOCKET_ENABLE_CRYPTO(3)

stream_socket_enable_crypto - Turns encryption on/off on an already connected socket

SYNOPSIS
mixed stream_socket_enable_crypto (resource $stream, bool $enable, [int $crypto_type], [resource $session_stream]) DESCRIPTION
Enable or disable encryption on the stream. Once the crypto settings are established, cryptography can be turned on and off dynamically by passing TRUE or FALSE in the $enable param- eter. PARAMETERS
o $stream - The stream resource. o $enable - Enable/disable cryptography on the stream. o $crypto_type - Setup encryption on the stream. Valid methods are o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv2_CLIENT o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv3_CLIENT o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv23_CLIENT o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLS_CLIENT o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv2_SERVER o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv3_SERVER o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv23_SERVER o STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_TLS_SERVER If omitted, the $crypto_type context option on the stream's SSL context will be used instead. o $session_stream - Seed the stream with settings from $session_stream. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success, FALSE if negotiation has failed or 0 if there isn't enough data and you should try again (only for non-blocking sockets). CHANGELOG
+--------+------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+------------------------------------+ | 5.6.0 | | | | | | | The $crypto_type is now optional. | | | | +--------+------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 stream_socket_enable_crypto(3) example <?php $fp = stream_socket_client("tcp://myproto.example.com:31337", $errno, $errstr, 30); if (!$fp) { die("Unable to connect: $errstr ($errno)"); } /* Turn on encryption for login phase */ stream_socket_enable_crypto($fp, true, STREAM_CRYPTO_METHOD_SSLv23_CLIENT); fwrite($fp, "USER god "); fwrite($fp, "PASS secret "); /* Turn off encryption for the rest */ stream_socket_enable_crypto($fp, false); while ($motd = fgets($fp)) { echo $motd; } fclose($fp); ?> The above example will output something similar to: SEE ALSO
"OpenSSL Functions", "List of Supported Socket Transports". PHP Documentation Group STREAM_SOCKET_ENABLE_CRYPTO(3)
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