On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:18:01 +0700, Sitthipong Thuetham <sitthbkk@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear PHP support, > > I have a question on an exec() command, if I would like to switch user right on Unix server, what command should I use? > > example: on the UNIX shell will be like below > $su root > Password:'password' > > but when I tried running exec() command on PHP, I couldn't do that > exec("su root"); > > I can't sent a password thru the exec() command, any way to do that? You might want to look at sudo, you can provide temporary root access with no password. -- Greg Donald Zend Certified Engineer http://gdconsultants.com/ http://destiney.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php