Re: [PROBLEM] Killed sshd, want to start it via PHP script.

Apache not running as root is a good thing, but probably is... Since it appears you are not the admin of the box, ask them to install Webmin (http://www.webmin.org/webmin) and to give your userid access to the ssh component. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Fredriksson" <simon@lan2k.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: Re: [PHP] [PROBLEM] Killed sshd, want to start it via PHP script. > > Yeah, but as it is, I can't start those things :P > I must be root to do so. Apache is not running as root. > > //Simon > > Jason Wong wrote: > > > On Monday 11 August 2003 13:01, Simon Fredriksson wrote: > > > > > >>Anyway; I want to make some sort of PHP backdoor to start sshd again. As > >>far as I know, only root can do so though so just an exec() won't do. > >>How can I switch to root, enter the password and then start sshd via a > >>PHP script that I run via the web? > > > > > > I know PHP is pretty versatile and all that, but I'm still amazed at the kinds > > of things that people want PHP to do when there are better and more > > appropriate alternatives: > > > > The simplest requiring no more than a shell script is to run a cron job which > > figures out whether sshd is running, if not start it. > > > > Further up the scale you can use xinetd. > > > > Even further, you can use something like daemontools to supervise your "must > > run" daemons. > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php