I have done a similar thing by executing another script via sudo using the
PHP command passthru() (or you could use exec(), system(), whatever's
appropriate). See
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
for more info. The whole setup was (and is) a bit of a kluge, but the
script didn't need to be run often so it doesn't impact server performance any.
-steve
At 09:37 AM 3/28/02 , Ken Nagorski wrote:
>Hi there,
>
>I have a little problem. I need to run a few commands for Courier from a
>script. What I have is a php based application that makes it easy to create
>and manage virtual domains and the addresses for them from the web. However
>when You "Apply the changes" everything is written to /tmp dir and the a
>little perl script parses the file and moves things where they need to go
>and then runs couriers makealiases command. Now you can't run a perl script
>SUID so I wrote a C program that just calls system() and runs the script and
>it is SUID. This doens't work however. No matter what I do. It is like
>Courier ignores this.
>
>I can't imagine there isn't anyone who has not run into the problem of
>automating things via PHP and not had to run a system command as root at
>some point in time. I am wondering what the different approaches to this
>problem are.
>
>Thanks
>Ken
>
>
>
>
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