Granting PHP Scripts Access to System Commands

I'm trying to run this program: /usr/bin/htpasswd, from a PHP script using the system command.

I'm unsuccessful though as the program is owned by root and I do not think that the user the PHP script is running under has got access to it.

How should I grant the PHP user/script access to this program (/usr/bin/htpasswd)?

/David

perhaps you could login as root and chmod the program 0777 or something like that?

Thanks for your quick reply.

I tried chmodding it to 0777 but the php script still won't execute the command.

This is the code:

<?
system("/usr/bin/htpasswd -b /home/user8458/public_html/wnwb/.htpasswd xxxxx xxxxx");
?>

have you tried exec()

Tested now, did not work.

I apprecíate your advice, keep it coming 🙂
Thanks