php and useraccounts

[Thorsten Ottosen]

Dear php-gurus,

Is there any way I can access user/administrator information from php? For
example, I would like to
transfer user from an NT system into my php-system.

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

[Erwin Moller]

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

Dear php-gurus,

Is there any way I can access user/administrator information from php? For
example, I would like to
transfer user from an NT system into my php-system.

Thanks in advance

Thorsten

Hi Thorsten,

You can always call systemroutines on the machine where PHP is running on.
Of course you (=the user PHP is running as) need to have the right rights.

If Linux, you'll probably hit some security-issues:
PHP runs as user Apache (in all cases I have seen).

Depending on what you want excactly, ask yourself:
Should user Apache be able to do root-stuff ??
Like adding real users to the system?
No, I think.
That sounds like a configuration I wouldn't advise to anybody.

If you want PHP to add user/passwords combinations to some databasetable
(not 'real' unix users, just a bunch of user/passwd), maybe that is ok.
Depends on your situation.

Anyway, take care.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Andy Jeffries]

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:

Is there any way I can access user/administrator information from php? For
example, I would like to
transfer user from an NT system into my php-system.

There is an smb_auth class for PHP which determines if a given username
and password is valid in an NT domain. I don't know of any way in which
you can get a list of users from an NT domain.

Cheers,
Andy

[thumb_42]

Thorsten Ottosen <ne*****@cs.auc.dk> wrote:

Dear php-gurus,

Is there any way I can access user/administrator information from php? For
example, I would like to
transfer user from an NT system into my php-system.

Thanks in advance

I know this is a PHP group, but that really sounds more like a task
suited toward perl.

To gain that type of permissions, you typically want to check into what
is known as "set-id". (a highly dangerous thing to do, but in
some cases you have no choice) As far as I know, there really isn't a
way to do that in PHP unless you were to do something like run PHP in
a special cgi environment.

I suppose you could do just the access stuff in perl (or other language)
and use PHP as a type of HTML wrapper for it.

Jamie