--- Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi James,
> I'm on a shared server so I doubt whether they would allow me to have shell
> access.
>
> Re: passthru("some linux command");
> You've lost me on this one :-)
>
> I'll have to read up on this, when I get more time.
> Bob.
Here's a more specific example:
<pre>
<?php
passthru("ls -lh /etc");
?>
</pre>
This would attempt to run the command at the Linux command line as the
webserver user. There are
ways to stop this with php.ini configuration settings though they are not
commonly implemented.
If you get a "safe_mode" or "open_basedir" error then you might use just "ls
-lh" to look at the
current directory where the PHP script is located. The passthru() function
could be blocked by
disable_functions in php.ini.
James
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