Re: Getting root privs

On 04/30/2010 11:26 AM, Jim Lucas wrote:

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... :)

Hmm that's a great idea. But my question is in general, suppose I get some freelance job to write a control panel for managing httpd, etc. Same procedure can be used ? I think so ? -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !