Tag: suid

Executing system commands from PHP with SUID executable.

If you want to execute system commands from something like PHP, you need a SUID executable which you can call from your PHP scripts. This is such a script. It could be extended to support parameters for the commands you want to execute, but that would be an enormous security risk, because then anybody can execute any command. If you need something as flexible as that, you need to think about adding some kind of security restrictions, like a list of allowed commands. Read More »
By halfgaar, 9 years ago, on February 02, 2011, at 16:02 | 2 comments