Re: Exec as user

I tried echo %PATH% > test.txt and both the webpage and the dos prompt echo the correct path information. This shows that a batch file executed by php can access the system vars. They have a diffence only in accessing the %USERNAME% variable. Could this be indicative that it is running as the system user? If so how do I change that? Charles Killmer ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mike Eheler <meheler@idearesource.com> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:56:21 -0800 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 >> >> >> > -- 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