Shell Commands

[drag0n]

Is there anyway I can excute shell commands through PHP and if I wanted to edit files on the system but the folders are owned by root, is there anyway, I can bypass that and using PHP, open, edit and save the files? Thanks for any kind of help you guys can offer

[hearn]

I know you can use shell_exec to execute a shell command and return the results via a string, like:

$result = shell_exec("cd /root");

echo $result; // "Directory Change Successful"

However, I'm not sure if you have login via root or anything like that, you can give it a try though. Most likely if you're on a *nix background it will give you the rights of Apache (Default nix setting for anything executed locally via Apache) or of PHP (some systems have alternate configurations). I have a feeling you're going to have trouble with this being that logging in as root is extremely insecure on a webserver. Let me know if you have any luck on this.

Cheers.