note 50777 deleted from function.shell-exec by cmb

Note Submitter: Kenneth ---- Sometimes it's needed to be able to execute shell commands as root using PHP. For instance, restarting named after adding or changing zones, or adding new alliases for sendmail. My approach is to run a server called Nanoweb, available from http://nanoweb.si.kz/. It's a webserver written in PHP, and needs only the pcntl extension extra to operate. Nanoweb is configured to only listen for connections on localhost, port 81 for example. From my normal PHP scripts running inside Apache I simply call scripts in Nanoweb to get the messy 'root' tasks done. Much more secure and safer. Hope this helps