File editiing through PHP

Uh... you can do it, just make sure the permissions of the file in
question are writeable by "other".


bill.berggren@padobe.com (William L. Berggren) wrote in message news:<290c5e5f.0306221441.3535cfdb@posting.google. com>...
> Well, everything you do that is web-based is under "apache" user, not
> root. Thus, you can't edit config files or make frontends to gui
> programs (you might possibly be able to make apache the same user as
> yourself to do this). If you use php-cgi, you can then run the script
> as root or any user and it will work. If your zsh, need not be run as
> root, you can probably just exec("./zsh shellscript");
>
> Bill
>
>
> Keith <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message news:<vfaei5c3ss8uc4@news.supernews.com>...
> > I am running PHP 4.3.2 on Apache 1.3.27 on Solaris. I would like to to
> > do 2 things through php.
> >
> > 1. Edit a config file. eg. "config.txt"
> > 2. Start a shell script eg. "zsh shellscript"
> >
> > Can someone propose a secure and _efficient_ way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks!