Re: Getting root privs

Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Hi, > > As you know there are lot of control panels lying around like Cpanel, > Lxadmin, most of them based on PHP. The control panels allow editing of > system files which requires root privileges, can somebody tell me how to > gain root privileges inside the script so that it can be useful if I > want to give my users a DNS editing interface instead of loading a big > bloated control panel. > We use an interface that writes everything to a DB. Then, every 5 minutes, a cron job comes around and dumps the db and builds the zone files for us. Might try something similar. It would be a lot safer then giving root access via PHP... :) -- Jim Lucas "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V by William Shakespeare