Posted by Philip Hallstrom on 04/07/05 19:43

You might find that get_current_user() is easier...

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.get-current-user.php

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, cragland wrote:

> when running a simple php script, below, with exec, I recieve:
> sh: /whoami: No such file or directory
>
> <?php
> // outputs the username that owns the running php/httpd process
> // (on a system with the "whoami" executable in the path)
> echo exec('whoami');
> ?>
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> cole
> mailto:cragland@firstam.com
>
>
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