Re: Re: system command runs application, but application doesn't work correctly
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:02:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: system command runs application, but application doesn't work correctly | ||
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On Fri, January 18, 2008 4:49 pm, Apple7777 wrote:
> I wonder is it possible to run system() command, so mencoder will run
> as from
> root (user "500") and not PHP (user "43").
No.
system() versus exec() has nothing to do with which user runs it.
They only differ in how they handle input/output to your script.
exec is the most flexible, so use that.
> Maybe that's the problem?
If would be a HUGE problem if PHP could run as root, at all. [shudder]
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