if you are really not interested in the security,
then you can run the apache server as root; then you have
root privileges for your PHP scripts.
then you can use the system() function with no restrictions
Cheers,
Catalin
"Petre Agenbag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi List
>
> I've gone through the list for previous questions and the only one that
> seems to be a solution is to use sudo, however, I cannot seem to get it
> right.
>
> Just as background:
>
> I want to make a small "admin" utill for an intranet machine, so the
> security risks don't bother me at all.
>
> Instead of myself having to ssh into the box to reboot or do other
> "routine" commands, I'd like to make a simple password protected webpage
> that would have simple links on them like "reboot", "redial" etc, so
> that someone with some sort of responsibility can do it themselves.
>
> Obviously these command(s) need to be run as root, so I looked at the
> /etc/sudoers and added apache , BUT, in the error log it prompts for a
> password.
>
> I tried to add the option NOPASSWD: ALL to the file, but it says there's
> a syntax error.
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Any other ways of doing this? PS, I don't even want to consider Webmin,
> it's way too complicated, I just want a handfull of predefined commands
> to be run, nothing else)
>
> Thanks
>
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