Re: becoming root user within php

Hello, Thanks for all the info guys! I successfully made php use root user to preform a few commands. I restricted root access to allow only a few commands which were needed. I'm doing my best to keep this thing as secure as possible which still preforming the tasks that need to be done. Tom On 7/26/05, Jack Scott <jack@glengroup.com> wrote: > > Hello, > Stop! never give up the root password inside a text file anywhere on > your machine! > > you should keep this script out of the web path and exicute it using > either the sudo or visudo commands in the shell. > > If you are on a UNIX/Linux machine: > add this to the first line of your script > #!/usr/bin/php > (or whatever the path to your php executable is) > > then something like this to execute it... > sudo ./myscript.php > > Make sence? > > On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 17:28 -0400, Tom Cruickshank wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm in the process of executing system commands using php. The only > problem > > is that I am not entirely sure how to execute these system commands > using > > root user. > > (I need root access to do a few things through php). Whenever I use the > exec > > command it uses the www user. Would anyone know? Thanks for any > assistance! > > > > Tom > >