RE: [PHP] Trigger root script?

Jeffrey Sambells wrote: > I need a php script to trigger another script to run as root on a > machine. Currently, the scripts run as the www-data user, but that > means I can't modify any files on the system that aren't owned by > www-data or world writable. I somehow need to trigger a php script to > run as the root user. I would use "sudo" for this. It allows non-root users to execute only the scripts you specify as root. Take a look at "man sudo" and "man visudo". For example, if you wanted your PHP scripts to be able to run the script "/usr/bin/foo" as root, you'd put an entry like the following in your /etc/sudoers file: www-data ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/foo If you can change the permissions/ownership on the file(s) in question it might be better to create a new group to own the files and make them group writable, then put the "www-data" user into the new group. HTH