Re: Exec as user

Charles --- As a general run on an Unix server httpd is run as user and group "nobody". > I have been looking through the docs and found no help on either > finding which user the EXEC'ed commands run as, or how to specify which > user they should run as. I tried exec, system, and passthru running a > batch file that would write %USERNAME% to a file. And all three > functions wrote nothing. They would however write "hello world". Has > anybody else run into this. > > I tried exec("test.bat"); > test.bat: > echo %USERNAME% > test.txt > > when run from a command line it resulting in "Charles" > when run from a webpage it resulted in "ECHO is on." > if I added a line "echo off" above the echo username it resulted in > "ECHO is off." again only from the webpage. > > In essense I need to update a DNS server through a web page. It works > if the script is local but not if it has to update a different server. > > Charles Killmer > Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0, PHP 4.1.0 > > -- > 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 --