results of exec(), system() or passthru()???

[hiberphoptik]

is it possible to "answer" the results of the exec or passthru command?

example:

system("/usr/bin/fooscript");

this script does an rsync thru ssh so it will ask for ssh pass for the host it is syncing to so..

how can i allow a user to pass their password via a web page to the script and have it continue? Is it even possible to send data to a running program using php like that?

of course i can run this from a shell and its ok cause i can type in the password when it asks for it, but if running from a web site how would i send it the password

TIA!

[weekender]

i don't think you can, unless you can do it all in one line in the shell

ie if the prog you are running is ./foo and it can take command line args for username and password, then you could use one exec call to do it

exec("./foo username password");

[hiberphoptik]

i think i need another solution then cause i dont think u can pass the password in the command you have to wait for it to ask... ah well back to the drawing board 🙂

[LordShryku]

That's where PHP's CLI commands come in. They'll handle stdin and stdout