Try doing this
<?
echo '<pre>';
print_r(array($HTTP_SERVER_VARS,$HTTP_ENV_VARS));
echo '</pre>';
?>
And see if the information you want is in there anywhere.
Mike
> 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
>>
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