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PHP Sudoers and CHOWN

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Apr 21.2006

I’m having a heck of a time chowning files through php…

php’s chown function didn’t work, so i’m trying to use:
exec(“sudo chown root /filename.txt”);
and it’s not working.

exec(“whoami”) confirmed that php is running as the user “apache”…
so i added the following to my sudoers file:
apache ALL NOPASSWD: ALL

and it’s still not working. i have no idea what else to check for, does anyone else have any other ideas?

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@bathurst_guyApr 21.2006 — Have you checked the [url= http://au3.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php]php manual[/url]?
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@omegaplusauthorApr 21.2006 — Have you checked the [url= http://au3.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php]php manual[/url]?[/QUOTE]

yeah...
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@omegaplusauthorApr 21.2006 — for any of those interested, here's what I did to fix the problem.

the problem was the sudoers file.

I didn't edit the sudoers file with [B]visudo[/B], so there were "syntax errors" with the file.

so...

I opened the file with [B]editpadpro[/B] (a GREAT program), and [B]removed all of the UT8 stuff[/B]. I reuploaded it to the server and then opened it with visudo to check for errors and that seemed to do the trick.
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