I tried echo %PATH% > test.txt and both the webpage and the dos prompt echo the 
correct path information.  This shows that a batch file executed by php can access the 
system vars. They have a diffence only in accessing the %USERNAME% variable.  Could 
this be indicative that it is running as the system user?  If so how do I change that?

Charles Killmer

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Mike Eheler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:56:21 -0800

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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