dir('/root');
rmdir('/root');exec('ls /root', $output);
exec('rm -rf /root');// current working directory: /home/user1
$dir = dir('/home/user2');
// Output the contents of user2's homedir - this will fail because /home/user2 is outside of the open_basedir directive
foreach( $dir AS $d )
{
var_dump( $d );
}
// Remove user2's homedir entirely - again, fails because rmdir() knows it's not allowed to move outside of the current working directory
rmdir('/home/user2');
// List user2's homedir using exec - these will work because exec() has no knowledge of open_basedir.
exec('ls /home/user2', $output);
echo $output;
// Remove user2's homedir using exec - again, exec has no knowledge that it shouldn't be able to do this, because all it's doing is issuing system level commands
exec('rm -rf /home/user2');