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A couple of configuration questions

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southbeach

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Using SCO UNIX 5.0.7, PHP 4.4 and appache 1.3.36

My PHP script is not able to execute shell scripts through system() commands ... All works well off the command prompt or CLI.

Questions:
1) How do I know what user is PHP/Apache attempting to run as when I use the system() command? (NOTE: I tried using chmod u+s on the script but it still does not work).

2) How can I change this (the user)?

Thanks!


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SouthBeach
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Well, I found /usr/lib/apache/conf/httpd.conf has an entry where the user and usergroup can be defined. I changed these and restarted apache but my problem is still there. :-(



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SouthBeach
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Since you're using PHP, you can check by creating a PHP file containing "<php system('id'); ?>" and loading in in your browser.
 
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That is exactly the kind of tests I have been using and nothing seems to work.

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<?php system('id'); ?>
<body>

</body>
</html>

renders a blank page ... no errors ... nothing ...




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Well, I as able to get a blank page three ways, but none is probably your issue.

1. renamed my test.php script to test.html so PHP isn't executed.

2. renamed the 'id' command to the non-existant 'idz'. When I did this I did see "idz: not found" in the error_log, though.

3. chmod o-rx /usr/bin/id. Then I see "id: Permission denied" in error_log.

Sorry, no other thoughts yet.
 
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