On Monday 11 August 2003 13:01, Simon Fredriksson wrote: > Anyway; I want to make some sort of PHP backdoor to start sshd again. As > far as I know, only root can do so though so just an exec() won't do. > How can I switch to root, enter the password and then start sshd via a > PHP script that I run via the web?
I know PHP is pretty versatile and all that, but I'm still amazed at the kinds of things that people want PHP to do when there are better and more appropriate alternatives: The simplest requiring no more than a shell script is to run a cron job which figures out whether sshd is running, if not start it. Further up the scale you can use xinetd. Even further, you can use something like daemontools to supervise your "must run" daemons. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* It is so very hard to be an on-your-own-take-care-of-yourself-because-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you grown-up. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
