On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:18:01 +0700, Sitthipong Thuetham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Dear PHP support,
> 
> I have a question on an exec() command, if I would like to switch user right 
> on Unix server, what command should I use?
> 
> example: on the UNIX shell will be like below
> $su root
> Password:'password'
> 
> but when I tried running exec() command on PHP, I couldn't do that
> exec("su root");
> 
> I can't sent a password thru the exec() command, any way to do that?


You might want to look at sudo, you can provide temporary root access
with no password.


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