"nobody" can't su to a real user without their password, and su requires a REAL TTY to get in a password, almost for sure, and you just can't do it that way...
Make a nobody-executable shell script to do grabdb... Be aware that then anybody on your server can do grabdb whenever they want... -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Armando Cerna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.general,php.db To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 9:07 PM Subject: HELP! > I have the following script does anyone see anything wrong with this as to > why it wouldn't be working > > It should su to mp then execute the command but I may have missed something > is \n ok for a carrige return? I did it like this because as nobody the > command couldn't be executed and failed and it won't let me su to nobody. > Well anyway here is the script > > <?PHP > > $permission = popen ("su mp -c grabdb","w+"); > sleep(2); > fwrite($permission,"secret\n"); > pclose($permission); > > if ($permission) { > print "All done Sir. Shall I <a href=index.html>return</a> you?"; > > } else { > print "$files"; > print "It's ok you'll get it working. =)"; > } > > > > ?> > > > It calls the bash script grabdb which contains the following: > > updatemp ; importmp ; echo "All Complete Sir" > > > Now updatetemp contains the following > > > smbclient file://machine/c -I 192.168.0.4 -U armando%secret -D a1 -c 'lcd /tmp/dbf > ; prompt ; mget cus.dbf ; quit' > > > > Once that is done it moves on to importmp > > cd /tmp/dbf ; dbf2mysql -d maria -t customers -s ID=row_id -c -P secret-U > user CUS.DBF > > And then quits. Now mind you this works beautiful in a shell on its own but > once PHP tries to do it with the script mentioned above it doesn't work > > > Thanks for any help, > Armando > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
