Why do you need the DSO to run as root?...
If it's just to do a specific task, it may be easier to write a shell script
(or PHP script, or Perl script) and suid it so that "nobody" can do that one
specific task that requires root access.
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From: Richard Kurth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: php.general
To: php <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 5:08 PM
Subject: Question about running php as root
> I have two versions of php running on my site one as a DSO with Apache
> and one as a cgi for command line scripting.
> I have scripts that run from a crontab that run at root.
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> Now I know I can not run a script at root from PHP that is running as
> A dso with Apache.
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> But is there a way to make one of my root scripts run by sending it a
> command to do so from the DSO version of PHP like with system command
> or something like that. Or some roundabout way to make it think root is
> asking the script run.
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> I hope you understand what I am asking.
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> Best regards,
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