Re: add to .htpasswd via php

I do this exact thing on my system, here is the code I use: $update = exec ("/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -b ./.htpasswd $username $password"); My guess is you are dealing with a permissions issue. Like Jack says, try 'su nobody' (or whatever your webserver runs as) and then try the command... Once that works, so will your script. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Dempsey" <dempsejn@georgetown.edu> To: <php-general@lists.php.net>; <joe@jwebmedia.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:44 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] add to .htpasswd via php > what user are you running the command on the the command line, and what user > is php running it as? if you're root for the first one, but nobody on the > second, that would be your problem... > > -jack > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Koenig [mailto:joe@jwebmedia.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:40 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] add to .htpasswd via php > > > I'm attempting to streamline my work by writing a script that will add a > user to the .htpasswd file. If echo the command I'm sending (via exec()) > and run it on the command line, it works fine. From php though, it does > nothing. All paths are full paths starting at server level. Is there > anything that anyone is familiar with that would cause this to not work? > Thanks, > > Joe > > -- > 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 >