I've tried several versions of this: $command = "su root"; $id = "whoami"; passthru($command, $result); passthru($id, $result2); echo $result; echo $result2;
"Jon Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:00de01c1a42c$9401d970$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Along this line, I have attempted to run a command as root from the server > > by using su. It never changed user. I tried using passthru to see if I > > could get the password prompt coming back with no luck. If I run passthru > > date, I get the time and date back. If I run passthru root, I get nothing > > back. I don't want to run apache as root and I would need to in order to > > access secured documents like passwd or some of the config files in etc. > > Can someone help with this? > > Can you post code? > > -- > Jon Farmer > Systems Programmer, Entanet www.enta.net > Tel 01952 428969 > PGP Key available, send email with subject: Send PGP Key > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
