[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote:
>
> > Does PHP provide no high-level means of iterating over the UNIX
> > /etc/group file, a la getgrent() C function? The task is to figure
> > out all groups that a user is in on a system with PHP in _safe mode_
> > (hence, cannot read from /etc/group directly).
> > Am I overlooking something?
> >
> system ("/usr/bin/id $user -G");
Thanks, but this would not work in safe mode.
I solved the problem by having a cron job making a local copy of
/etc/group once in a while; my script then goes through it line by
line to extract the groups. But this is a hack...
I could, of course, install `id' in the safe_mode_exec_dir, but the
sys admin is rather reluctant to have too many executables in there,
and I understand him. I just wish that PHP had a posix_getgrent()
function. Maybe I should file a feature request... I'll go do that
now.
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Arcady Genkin
i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end
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