php code to change password

asifbasha · 06-23-2011, 11:38 PM

hai to all

I have the following php code to print the output in the browser

1) <?php

$one=exec("pwd");

echo $one; //output : /root/docs

$two=exec("ls -l");

echo $two; //output :drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 3 04:40 .

$three=exec("smbpasswd -a bob");

echo $three; //output : prints some garbage values ..

?>

but when i execute the above code , $three is not working ... I am in a situation to change a password for samba users from php code .... any ideas will help me

Thanks in advance to all

frieza · 06-24-2011, 01:22 AM

first of all, smbpasswd needs to be run as root to add a user or change a different user's password
second, it's an interactive program, that is to say it prompts for input, so executing it in that fassion via php is probably not going to work

asifbasha · 06-24-2011, 01:34 AM

Thanks for your reply

please suggest me some ideas , to execute this above code in any other fashion ..

j-ray · 06-24-2011, 04:42 AM

I don't see what this is good for but you can run php scripts from command line too. Maybe you havte to install php CLI...
Then you can run it as root, or sudo...

another idea, but VERY DANGEROUS:
add the apache user to the sudoers and give him appropiate rights regarding smbpasswd->
man visudo