Re: Need to Run a PHP script using CRON or ?
| From: | CPT John W. Holmes | Date: | Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:26:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Need to Run a PHP script using CRON or ? | ||
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Lashley" <patl+php@phoenix.volant.org>
To: <jvilla@isdesigndev.com>; <php-db@lists.php.net>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Need to Run a PHP script using CRON or ?
> --On Monday, September 15, 2003 15:27:45 -0500 Jonathan Villa
> <jvilla@isdesigndev.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Interesting... how does this fair concerning security? So I'll have to
> > have this file located in my document root, is this a good thing? My
> > current directory structure consists of several files located outside
> > the doc root. I guess I could always include it onto a page
>
> Unfortunately command-line fetch programs seldom provide a clean
> method for providing authentication info; so you probably can't
> just restrict access to that script based on a userid/password.
> (You might be able to do something with SSL and client certificates;
> but then you need to either buy a client cert or figure out how to
> set up a private certificate authority...)
Getting off topic here, but you can specify user and password for wget. So
you could protect the file with .htaccess and provide the user/login to
wget.
The only problem is the user/password will be available when you run "ps".
For a way to get around that, see the man page of wget.
---John Holmes...