Re: Exec as user

Try doing this <?

    echo '<pre>';
    print_r(array($HTTP_SERVER_VARS,$HTTP_ENV_VARS));
    echo '</pre>';

?> And see if the information you want is in there anywhere. Mike

I don't believe that the system variables are available to php. I work on *nix mostly, but I have a windows machine at home running php and I can't access any of my system var's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "charlesk " <charlesk@netgaintechnology.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: [PHP] Exec as user

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