server side help

[Anon]

Hi,
I am working on a server side project which creates dns files on to the Linux server. But I am facing problems with creating the dns files in "/var/named/". I am another user, and I also have server controls, but since I am running my PHP files as another user I am getting "Permissin Denied" error in creating the files. Can anyone help me out?????
I tried to creating a C program which will be executed by my PHP program, but again while executing the program it gives problems with creating the dns file and they are not created nor any error is shown.
How can I switch over to user root from my current user permissions??

ITS urgent !!

[Anon]

So you cannot run your script as root? Is your script a CGI or are you running it from Apache?

Derek C

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You could use programs like 'sudo' to get limited root access, but it is an extremely bad idea to connect a website to any system-functions that require root access.
One hacker and... boom!