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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/01/06 15:47
danish wrote:
> hi everyone..sorry everyone if ive posted on the wrong group but i
> really needed help....
>
> i wan tto start jakarta-tomcat-5.5.3 from the webbrowser using the
> sheel scripts...i normally use the shell scripts from the command line
> to start and stop the tomcat server.....
>
> i found out that php gives this incredible facility where i can execute
> normal bash commands...i tried doing so ..but a simple command like {
> system('whoami') } from
> browser......eg.....http://localhost/startup.php..
>
> prints apache as the user....so technically it executes the tomcat
> startup script as apache user..but ive got
> jakarta-tomcat-5.5.3 under the tomcat user....can someone please tell
> me is there a way in php coding wherein i can execute the command as
> another....i know this seems a bit out of place...but i really didnt
> know anywhere else to go
>
> danish
>
Not if the OS won't let you.
You potentially could do a posix_setuid to change the uid, but that has
to be allowed by the OS and most won't because of the potential (huge)
security risk.
You may be able to su to the tomcat user - but again the OS must be set
up to allow it.
You can't do anything the OS won't allow. What you really need is a
Unix Admin to set up the permissions you need.
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