Re: suEXEC and PHP

Hi, suEXEC will only work if PHP is installed as CGI, not Apache module... Regards, Serge > Hi, > > Apache 1.3.24, PHP 4.2.2 > > I am running a php script which executes something like > > system("scp -r -S ssh host1:/home/dir host2:/home"); > > The scp command executes as the apache user, in my case 'nobody'. This does > not work, as the ssh authentication is not set up for user 'nobody' nor > should it be. Setting a different user, as in "scp -r -S ssh > myuser@host1:/home/dir myuser@host2:/home" deosn't work, ssh still tries to > authenticate 'nobody'. > > First I tried running apache as a different user, 'apache', after setting up > the rsa keys etc (ssh stuff) for 'apache'. The authentication then works but > there are issues of the 'apache' user having read/write permissions on the > directories host1:/home/dir and host2:/home. I thought that giving the > 'apache' user permission to read/write these directories wasn't a very good > idea. > > Now I am trying to use the apache suEXEC feature to do this, so that my php > script can run as a different user (eg. myuser) who has all the right > permissions and ssh configured. However, so far I have been unsccessful and > suspect that suEXEC will not work with PHP. Does anyone out there have > experience with this? Any advice would be appreciated. > > tia, > > Rich >