I can access the username system var when the script is run from a command prompt. The problem lies when iis tells php to run it. I have the directory security turned on so IIS authenticates me before any scripts are run. So it should be running as me.
Charles Killmer ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Jim Lucas [php]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 13:50:17 -0800 I don't believe that the system variables are available to php. I work on *nix mostly, but I have a windows machine at home running php and I can't access any of my system var's. ----- Original Message ----- From: "charlesk " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: [PHP] Exec as user > I have been looking through the docs and found no help on either finding which user the EXEC'ed commands run as, or how to specify which user they should run as. I tried exec, system, and passthru running a batch file that would write %USERNAME% to a file. And all three functions wrote nothing. They would however write "hello world". Has anybody else run into this. > > I tried exec("test.bat"); > test.bat: > echo %USERNAME% > test.txt > > when run from a command line it resulting in "Charles" > when run from a webpage it resulted in "ECHO is on." > if I added a line "echo off" above the echo username it resulted in "ECHO is off." again only from the webpage. > > In essense I need to update a DNS server through a web page. It works if the script is local but not if it has to update a different server. > > Charles Killmer > Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0, PHP 4.1.0 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Charles Killmer Netgain Technology 251-4700 -- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]