Re: Change linux password

Hi Yohan, Yes, your question is not 100% PHP, it's more related to linux and user access levels. First of all, you mentioned running httpd as root, dont even think about with without recompiling apache! You can't do that, even if you define a new user in group 0 (root). Your question has a long story!! There were people who wanted to execute commands under root permission. (I remember since 1996!). The only solution we finally found, was to write command into a file and let the cron run the commands every 1-2 minutes. Another way is to chgrp shadow file to nobody (or any group running httpd) and give the write permission for group to shadow file (chmod). [Isn't secure for nobody] Regards, Ahmad Anvari ----- Original Message ----- From: "Johan Björk" <johan@websidorna.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:53 PM Subject: [PHP] Change linux password Maybe this question is not 100% PHP, but it could be. How do I with Apache and PHP 4+ running under RedHat 5.0, change a users password in /etc/passwd (shadow)? And I would like to do it without running the web server as root. Can PHP force a process to run as superuser somehow and in that way be able to execute the passwd command to change password, or are there another command that might be more helpful? If I don't remember wrong this issue have been discussed somewhere around here before, but it's too long ago for me to remember. Thanks! --- Johan Björk