Re: Interactive Commands
| From: | Mukul Sabharwal | Date: | Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:56:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Interactive Commands | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Ok... it shows my username....anyway, you having said
that means the passthr("oldpass\n..."); is the correct
way to change the password.
--- Joe Conway <joe@conway-family.com> wrote: >
>Subject: [PHP] Interactive Commands
>
> > I was recently doing useless stuff with System(),
> > Exec(), Passthru, etc... and was wondering if i
> could
> > change my password using this :
> >
> <snip>
> > this works fine, but i can't seem to get this
> right :
> > echo "<pre>";
> > passthru("passwd\noldpass\nnewpass\nnewspass");
> > echo "</pre>";
>
>
> Try running:
>
> <html><body>
> <?
> $output =
whoami;
> echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
> ?>
> </body></html>
>
> Note the backticks around whoami. This will show
> you the user that your
> web server is running as. That user won't be able to
> change your password.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Joe
>
>
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