OK, here is where I am (between handling other pre-holiday/long weekend
processese here);
I have the PHP script create a shell script containing the needed code for
the cURL process. Of course the shell script will execute from the command
line with me as 'root'. But the exec() that calls the shell script will not
execute the script because of improper permissions. (Has to do with the
permissions on the topmost directory for where the file lives, changing that
could be dangerous from a security standpoint).
So I have tried to change those (I am on a Linux box) via the PHP, no luck.
It will let me chmod the shell script via the PHP script. So I tried to move
the script to /usr/local/bin;
rename("getlist.sh", "/usr/local/bin/getlist.sh"); Permission denied
exec("mv getlist.sh /usr/local/bin/getlist.sh"); Permissiion denied
exec("cp getlist.sh /usr/local/bin/getlist.sh"); Permissiion denied
I am looking into posix_setuid() to change the permissions for the time
needed, but I've a feeling, after a couple of tests, that this is not going
to be the way to do this either.
I wish permissions in Linux were more straigtforward. Anyone have an idea
how to do this with opening the server wide? Thanks for all your help.
Jay
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