connecting two machine via php?

gnome354

Has anyone successfully connected to another machine securely using a php script? If so, how did you do it?

For example:
Computer A is the machine running the php script
Computer B is the machine with the information you need

Has anyone created a script that connects computer A to computer B securely (i.e. not telnet) to gather information from computer B?

I have been trying to tackle this issues for months know with no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

theeper

If you had SSL running on server B, you could have a script on server A that does a GET on a script/file on server B, and it would be secure.

gnome354

Originally posted by theeper
If you had SSL running on server B, you could have a script on server A that does a GET on a script/file on server B, and it would be secure.

How exactly would I go about doing that? SSL is installed on server B. I can successfully execute the command:

ssh2 -l username hostname command

from the command line however, I cannot seem to get shell_exec(), passthru(), exec() nor system() to execute the command. Any suggestions?

theeper

Is your PHP running in safe mode?

theeper

So, you actually want to make the connection with SSH, not an HTTP connection with PHP right?

I thought you wanted a PHP script on server A to get data from a PHP script running on server B.

Tracer

What kind of data are you trying to retrieve?

Files, SQL Database Query, ODC?

gnome354

I apologize for the confusion. I want to search (grep) files from server B (I would also like to transfer files) using a PHP script from computer A. The only way I was told this could be done was through an ssh connection.

PHP is running in safe mode, however a user was created on computer A to have the same user id, and group id as the owner of the files on server B.

For example if the owner of the files I would like to access on server B is the following when you type id from the command line:

uid=501(userX) gid =1001(mygroup) groups =1001(mygroup)

then the user on computer A has the same information.