Re: [PHP] becoming root user within php

Hello, Thanks for all the info guys! I successfully made php use root user to preform a few commands. I restricted root access to allow only a few commands which were needed. I'm doing my best to keep this thing as secure as possible which still preforming the tasks that need to be done. Tom

Re: [PHP] becoming root user within php

Hi Tom, First of all due to the "risks" involved in doing something like this.. are you sure you need to do this as root ? Secondly, are you sure this script will not be accessible via an apache server ? (i.e this is not inside your document root?) Your best bet is to use sudo (man sudo, ma

[PHP] becoming root user within php

Hello, I'm in the process of executing system commands using php. The only problem is that I am not entirely sure how to execute these system commands using root user. (I need root access to do a few things through php). Whenever I use the exec command it uses the www user. Would anyone know? Th