Switch account in PHP

Anon

Hello,

Simple question for this forum, we hope.

We have a PHP4 environment by our provider. With privileges we can access this environment from our account (linux, apache, php, mysql environment).

The webserver which runs PHP as a apache module, we are running under the nobody account.

From a PHP script in the webserver we want to move files from our own account (with privileges), not from the nobody account.
How can we switch account from within the PHP-script. suEXEC doesn't work because it's PHP-module in apache and safe-mode is set so exec, passthru and system doesn't work either.
We want to us the standard copy, rename and unlink commands within PHP, but with the privileges from our own account.

Anybody has as solution for this? Such an environment and demands are not that strange, or not?

With regards,
Gerald

killswytch

Where do you want to move these files to? Within the same user folder?

Anon

No, we want to move the files from one directory to another.
Something like:

mv /opt/guide/www/HTML/mylinks/tmpwork/test.txt /opt/guide/www/HTML/test.txt

Yesterday evening we come up with using FTP; just open a FTP connection to the same server, with our privileges account...may be the solution?! But renames from directories doesn't work in FTP, not?

Gerald

geralds

We have found the solution for the problem to access (move, copy, rename, delete) files in the server environment from within PHP scripts running as nobody in Apache.

May be this is also a solution for others who use an external provider for hosting the website with PHP/mysql/etc. and can not directly change the linux/apache/php4 environment because this environment is from the provider who has setup a secure environment for different users.

We use FTP. The restriction is that the environment has enable FTP in PHP scripting. With FTP you can connect to the same (provider) server as a different user and then move, copy and delete files. It works perfect and good for us, because so we can access and set files from within privileged useraccount under with you don't want the normal PHP script code to run.

Regards,
Gerald