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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2005 21:42:36 +0100
From:      Bas Essers <bassers@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: shell_exec sudo problem
Message-ID:  <503e8b5805021912423ca61250@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1D2ZgO-0005dn-00@marl.lancs.ac.uk>
References:  <E1D2ZgO-0005dn-00@marl.lancs.ac.uk>

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you should take a look at apache error log to see what sudo says.
i''ve never used sudo but when i make a shell script SUID 0, bash tells me
it is too dangerous to run a script in SUID 0. and that's probably
true because a lot can be modified in a script thru the environment.


On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:50:45 -0000, Paul <paul@theharbour.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> For some reason I can't get sudo to work from an online php script using
> shell_exec.
> 
> I have put this in the sudoers file:
> 
> www     ALL=(ALL) ALL
> 
> (full access is temporary until I get it working)
> 
> When I run:
> 
> echo shell_exec("sudo echo hello");
> 
> in a php script in a web page running on apache2, it does nothing - I don't
> get any feedback.
> 
> echo shell_exec("whoami"); confirms that www is the correct user.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Paul
> 
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-- 
Met vriendelijke groet,
Bas Essers



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