Posted by Roger Thomas on 08/18/05 07:50

OK. I am able to setup remote key authentication between svrA and svrB. From svrA I can login to svrB with something like
[www@svrA www]$ ssh www@svrB

and I can also execute a shell script like
[www@svrA www]$ ssh www@svrB /tmp/test.sh

On svrA I have a PHP script like so:
<?
system('ssh www@svrB /tmp/test.sh someDIR');
?>

/tmp/test.sh on svrB is only a one liner like so:
mkdir /tmp/$1

I ran the script from the browser but the /tmp/someDIR is not created :(
Could it be that user nobody on svrA is *not* allowed to connect to svrB because the public key belongs to user www ? How do I rectify this ?

In the actual situation, I need to execute a shell script in svrB (from browser served by Apache on svrA) that only root can run. Please advise. I am getting very worried.

--
Roger



Quoting Matthew Weier O'Phinney <mweierophinney@gmail.com>:

> * Roger Thomas <sniper@home.net.my>:
> > My PHP script is in svrA. How do I run a shell script in svrB?
> > svrB does not have PHP and Apache :(
> > Is this at all possible? Please advise.
>
> Use ssh. You will have to setup remote key authentication from svrA to
> svrB (so that a password will not be needed), and then in your script
> you would call:
>
> system('ssh svrB /path/to/scriptToRun');
>
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> Zend Certified Engineer
> http://weierophinney.net/matthew/
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