Re: reboot pc with PHP

if you are really not interested in the security, then you can run the apache server as root; then you have root privileges for your PHP scripts. then you can use the system() function with no restrictions Cheers, Catalin "Petre Agenbag" <internet@vsa.co.za> wrote in message news:1062074863.3805.21.camel@petre... > Hi List > > I've gone through the list for previous questions and the only one that > seems to be a solution is to use sudo, however, I cannot seem to get it > right. > > Just as background: > > I want to make a small "admin" utill for an intranet machine, so the > security risks don't bother me at all. > > Instead of myself having to ssh into the box to reboot or do other > "routine" commands, I'd like to make a simple password protected webpage > that would have simple links on them like "reboot", "redial" etc, so > that someone with some sort of responsibility can do it themselves. > > Obviously these command(s) need to be run as root, so I looked at the > /etc/sudoers and added apache , BUT, in the error log it prompts for a > password. > > I tried to add the option NOPASSWD: ALL to the file, but it says there's > a syntax error. > > What am I missing? > > Any other ways of doing this? PS, I don't even want to consider Webmin, > it's way too complicated, I just want a handfull of predefined commands > to be run, nothing else) > > Thanks >