I do this exact thing on my system, here is the code I use:
$update = exec ("/usr/local/apache/bin/htpasswd -b ./.htpasswd $username $password");
My guess is you are dealing with a permissions issue. Like Jack says, try 'su nobody'
(or whatever your webserver runs as) and then try the command... Once that works, so
will your script.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jack Dempsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] add to .htpasswd via php
> what user are you running the command on the the command line, and what user
> is php running it as? if you're root for the first one, but nobody on the
> second, that would be your problem...
>
> -jack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP] add to .htpasswd via php
>
>
> I'm attempting to streamline my work by writing a script that will add a
> user to the .htpasswd file. If echo the command I'm sending (via exec())
> and run it on the command line, it works fine. From php though, it does
> nothing. All paths are full paths starting at server level. Is there
> anything that anyone is familiar with that would cause this to not work?
> Thanks,
>
> Joe
>
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