a) $man su for more info
b) because suing and passing in arbitrary commands is a hackers dreams
you may have some problems with safe mode and the like

-Dan

On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 03:45, josemaria wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Maybe this is not the exact place for this post, as is more a problem with
> permissions and linux, but I have been searching all around and I cannot
> find an answer to my problem, so if somebody can lend a hand it will be
> greatly appreciated.
> 
> My problem is that i have written a script that only adds a group to linux
> with function groupadd and with a name that i give in a php page. If I
> execute the script from console, it works fine, as I am root user on my
> machine, but when I try to execute from web page, it makes nothing, as the
> user is apache.
> 
> If I want to make su at the beginning of the script, is it possible to send
> also the password so it prompts for nothing? is there a better way to do
> that?
> 
> I'm using RH9, Apache 2 and php 4.2.3.
> 
> Thx in advance.
> 
> 


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