RE: [PHP] Giving my script the power!

I do a similar thing on my machines, only instead of having a java daemon that runs as root I chose to create a database that the php script can insert user and other information into, then a perl script that is called from cron that fetches from the database and does the necessary user adds. This is a nice system for adding users to many systems at once for a network that is not running NIS, as all of the linux machines on my network can fetch data from the database and add the users as necessary. I don't, however, trust the security of this implementation, and only use it on our internal network that sits behind a firewall. I'd recommend that you take the same precaution. -jm -----Original Message----- From: Sebastien Roy [mailto:sroy@galeasec.com] Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:28 PM To: Brandon Orther Cc: PHP User Group Subject: Re: [PHP] Giving my script the power! Hi, I'm doing the exact same thing as you and I got the exact same problem. After getting almost crazy with trying everything possible to run a script as root, someone told me that I'm limited to the server permission. So I decided to simply create a java deamon wich run as root. This deamon wait on a port for commands (encrypted) to be executed.via fsockopen(...). Surprisly, it was easy and it work prety well... Hope it helps Sebastien Roy sroy@galeasec.com Brandon Orther wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to make a script that can add users and multiple things to a > linux box. I have all teh programming issues solved except I need to make > this script root, or make it able to run anyhting it want to. Is there a > way to make my php script liek a super user? > > INFO: Redhat 7 Apache1.? > > Thanks > Brandon Orther > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net