PHP and iptables

[Anon]

What would be the best way(read elegant) to access iptables from a php script? Since I assume the security context that a normal php script is running under won't allow me iptable access I'd also have to get around this. Say I wanted to run the command from php :

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT

Thanks in Advance!
Eric

[quicknik]

hi,

running php as cgi an defining a userid and group
in them apache conf file would be a possible solution.
But don't ask about security 🙂

bye,
niko