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[mush]

Hi ,
We r developing a mail client. Our php scripts r on one machine (Windows)and we r using qmail (which is present on the other linux machine).
the problem is that we want to change the passwrod, we r using the command of unix (that command is present on the unix machine having no php on it)..
Now I want to execute that command with the help of the php scripts which r executing on the windows.
thanks in advance
Mush

[archangel_617b]

Yeah, no. You cannot call commands on a remote machine without a ssh or telnet interface. You do not want to be doing that through PHP (though I'm sure you could build an overly complex script to do so).

If you are trying to have centralized passwords, you really ought to be checking your NIS setup rather then doing a hack php workaround.

[viper21634]

overly complex my butt!!!! you could build that script with under 10 lines. what I would suggest, now this may not work in your case, but I would load appache and PHP on your linux box, what flavor and version of linux?? or if you dont want to do that, go to php.net and read up on the socket connection, then all you would have to do is set a user on your linux box that has access to the one dir that has the file you want to run, have your script open the connection, login, send your command, and logout back out. it will be a little more complex in your script, but you get the idea,

[herve]

Hi,

well like the others have tell you before me,
you have basically two options :

1) finding some "telnet class" for PHP, which
permit you to simulate a telnet session from
your PHP script. This is not simple (depending
of your actual skill level) and also not very
secure (s.o. can sniff passwords since they
are transmitted in clear between the two hosts)

2) Install Apache and PHP on the linux box, then
you just need 1 (yes one) line of PHP do
change the password and there's not security
issue.

The choice is yours !

Hervé.

[largo]

I recently did that on a bsd machine. qmail was worked with vpopmail functions along with some custom functions.

Basically the mail server listens to a secure port and accepts requests from authoritive servers in xml format.

php was used with curl to send ssl based xml requests. The idea basically came from payment processing groups and how they work. This solution has so far worked really well. The mail server responds back with an xml document in return which can be parsed for result.

-m.

[ednark]

welcome to teh buzzword of the day

'webservices'

thats exactly what you wrote... not very magical are they

if it's working fine don't touch it...

but look at soap and xmlrpc stuff... they have what you are trying to do all wrapped up... but again... if yours works fine there is no reason to use the suff i mentioned