New to posting long time lurker.

First off to get an idea of what I'm talking about go here http://www.openwall.com/phpass/.
I'm using version 0.3 which you can download here http://www.openwall.com/phpass/phpass-article-3.zip

It's used in a number of projects, from wordpress to oscommerce, and I just recently implemented it with my project. It was working fine on my local development machine no problems.

I did testing on my lunarpages shared host website and phpass is throwing a read directory warning.


Screenshot of the warning http://www.medicationforall.com/image/phpass.png

The code still works and generates a hashed password. I did do some searching and found this post http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?app=tracker&showissue=128 but all he is doing is error suppression. Whats the mechanics thats making this code throw a warning in the first place? And is there a better alternative than just suppressing the warning?

So by even checking if the folder is readable warrants throwing a warning? The code doesn't require the directory be readable to work, it goes to a fallback if it's not. How else should the permissions be checked?

Edit:
Did some more searching, and it's a known problem.
http://drupal.org/node/965302
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/13429

Specifically for the open_basedir problem see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486918/php-is-readable-trouble-with-open-basedir


Ideally the proper solution should check if the directory in question is in the list of open_basedir paths.
I could alter the code, but I think I'll just do error suppression.  =/