Re: Help on running external command / Partially solved

Daniel Brown wrote:

On Feb 20, 2008 10:30 AM, Mário Gamito <gamito@gmail.com> wrote:

    Please keep the replies on-list, Mario.  It helps others out, and

ensures that you'll get better advice from a larger group of talented people.

<? $username = "lixo"; exec('su -c - vpopmail "/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /home/vpopmail/domains/wwlib.lan/'.$username.'"',$ret,$err); echo "<pre />\n"; print_r($ret); echo "</pre>\n"; echo isset($err) ? "Error: ".$err : null; ?>

No output at all and I have "display_errors = On" in php.ini Still no directory creation. If I run the file as user vpopmail it asks me for a password: # su - vpopmail $ php /home/www/hash.php Output:" [vpopmail@cruzador ~]$ php /home/www/hash.php Password:"

    It's because you can't automate su - without using an intermediary

such as 'expect'.

You can use sudo to allow specific commands to be run. http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/man/sudoers.html#examples Though I highly recommend you just dump this stuff to a database or something and have a cron job running every 5 minutes to check for new accounts to create etc. -- Postgresql & php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/