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@xxxxxxxxx>: > * Roger Thomas <sniper@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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'); > > -- > Matthew Weier O'Phinney > Zend Certified Engineer > http://weierophinney.net/matthew/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > --------------------------------------------------- Sign Up for free Email at http://ureg.home.net.my/ --------------------------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php