Re: PHP script to write to /home/userid/ dir. popen not working. how?

On Friday 12 April 2002 14:36, gaukia 345 wrote: > Hi, > I'm using PHP 4.1.2 to write a webmail. I'm using Procmail along with > Sendmail. PHP runs as user nobody or user apache. Note that I have the user > id and password in my PHP script from using HTTP authentication. FYI I'm > running Mandrake Linux 8.1. > > The problem is: > I want to write to some files (procmail recipe files) that'll reside in > /home/userid. I tested running su using the below code > $fp=popen("su userid","w"); > fputs($fp,"userpassword"); > fputs($fp,"cd /home/db/"); > fputs($fp,"mkdir THIS_IS_GOOD"); //just testing if I can write to dir > fclose($fp); > exit(done); > > 1) Even when I enter the wrong password, my PHP code doesn't complain. It > dutifully echoes done. Why? There's nothing in your script to check whether the "su" operation was successful or not. You will see "done" regardless. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty dining room. */