Re: Getting root privs

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:11:17PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > 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 ? If you can find an open source control panel (like webmin), you could download the code and examine it. Paul -- Paul M. Foster