diff --git a/lam/INSTALL b/lam/INSTALL
index 83a2cf30..e3763b58 100644
--- a/lam/INSTALL
+++ b/lam/INSTALL
@@ -13,17 +13,9 @@ Installation Instructions for LAM
    - OpenLDAP (>2.0)
    - A web browser :-)
 
-   MHash is only needed if you use PHP < 4.3 and if you want to use SHA or SSHA
-   for password hashes.
+   MHash is only needed for Samba password hashes.
    MCrypt will be used to store your LDAP password encrypted in the session file.
 
-   Getting mcrypt and mhash for Suse/RedHat:
-
-   Either you compile PHP4 yourself or you use some unofficial packages:
-
-   - Suse: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/poeml/mod_php4
-   - RedHat: http://ftp.horde.org/pub/RPMS
-
 
    See docs/README.schema.txt for information about used LDAP schema files.
 
@@ -60,7 +52,7 @@ Installation Instructions for LAM
 
 3. Setting up PHP
 
-   LAM runs with PHP4 or PHP5.
+   LAM runs with PHP5.
 
    Needed changes in your php.ini:
 
diff --git a/lam/README b/lam/README
index 69abeef9..d28959ef 100644
--- a/lam/README
+++ b/lam/README
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ LAM - Readme
 ============
 
   LDAP Account Manager (LAM) manages user, group and host accounts in an LDAP
-  directory. LAM runs on any webserver with PHP4/5 support and connects to your
+  directory. LAM runs on any webserver with PHP5 support and connects to your
   LDAP server unencrypted or via SSL/TLS.
   Currently LAM supports these account types: Samba 2 and 3, Unix, Kolab 2,
   address book entries, NIS mail aliases and MAC addresses. There is a tree
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ LAM - Readme
                               Tilo Lutz <tilolutz@gmx.de>
 
   Requirements:
-    PHP4/5
+    PHP5
     Openldap (2.0 or greater)
     A web-browser that supports CSS
 
diff --git a/lam/lib/lamdaemon.inc b/lam/lib/lamdaemon.inc
index 6bfa5e4d..bd70e564 100644
--- a/lam/lib/lamdaemon.inc
+++ b/lam/lib/lamdaemon.inc
@@ -50,49 +50,34 @@ function lamdaemon($commands, $server) {
 
 	$userstring = implode ("\n", $commands);
 	$output_array = array();
-	if (function_exists('proc_open')) {
-		// New Code, requires PHP 4.3
-		$towrite = escapeshellarg($server)." ".escapeshellarg($_SESSION['config']->scriptPath)." - -";
-		$descriptorspec = array(
-			0 => array("pipe", "r"), // stdin
-			1 => array("pipe", "w"), // stout
-			2 => array("file", "/dev/null", "a") // sterr
-			);
-		$process = proc_open(escapeshellarg($_SESSION['lampath']."lib/lamdaemonOld.pl")." ".$towrite,
-			$descriptorspec,
-			$pipes);
-		if (is_resource($process)) {
-			/* perl-script is running
-			* $pipes[0] is writeable handle to child stdin
-			* $pipes[1] is readable handle to child stdout
-			* any error is send to /dev/null
-			*/
-			// user+passwd
-			fwrite($pipes[0], $ldap_q[0] . "\n");
-			fwrite($pipes[0], $ldap_q[1] . "\n");
-			// Write to stdin
-			fwrite($pipes[0], $userstring);
-			}
-		fclose($pipes[0]);
-		while (!feof($pipes[1])) {
-			$output = fgets($pipes[1], 1024);
-			if ($output!='') $output_array[] = $output;
-			}
-		fclose($pipes[1]);
-		proc_close($process);
+	$towrite = escapeshellarg($server)." ".escapeshellarg($_SESSION['config']->scriptPath)." - -";
+	$descriptorspec = array(
+		0 => array("pipe", "r"), // stdin
+		1 => array("pipe", "w"), // stout
+		2 => array("file", "/dev/null", "a") // sterr
+		);
+	$process = proc_open(escapeshellarg($_SESSION['lampath']."lib/lamdaemonOld.pl")." ".$towrite,
+		$descriptorspec,
+		$pipes);
+	if (is_resource($process)) {
+		/* perl-script is running
+		* $pipes[0] is writeable handle to child stdin
+		* $pipes[1] is readable handle to child stdout
+		* any error is send to /dev/null
+		*/
+		// user+passwd
+		fwrite($pipes[0], $ldap_q[0] . "\n");
+		fwrite($pipes[0], $ldap_q[1] . "\n");
+		// Write to stdin
+		fwrite($pipes[0], $userstring);
 		}
-	else { // PHP 4.3>
-		$towrite = escapeshellarg($server)." ".escapeshellarg($_SESSION['config']->scriptPath)." ".
-			escapeshellarg($ldap_q[0]).' '.escapeshellarg($ldap_q[1]);
-		$command = escapeshellarg($_SESSION['lampath']."lib/lamdaemonOld.pl")." ".$towrite;
-		$pipe = popen("echo \"$userstring\"|$command" , 'r');
-		while(!feof($pipe)) {
-			//$output .= fread($pipe, 1024);
-			$output = fgets($pipe, 1024);
-			if ($output!='') $output_array[] = $output;
-			}
-		pclose($pipe);
+	fclose($pipes[0]);
+	while (!feof($pipes[1])) {
+		$output = fgets($pipes[1], 1024);
+		if ($output!='') $output_array[] = $output;
 		}
+	fclose($pipes[1]);
+	proc_close($process);
 	if (sizeof($output_array) > 0) {
 		return $output_array;
 	}