NYCPHP Meetup

[Ajai Khattri]

On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Michele Waldman wrote:

> The scenario is I'm running a php script but I want to switch linix users?
>
> Do I have to use ssh2?  I would have to go off the server and come back in
> just to switch users?

Only root can change user and I doubt your script will be running as root 
(otherwise any PHP scrpt could become any user and wreak havoc on a 
server!).


This begs the question: why do you need to change user?



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Aj.