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titaniumdecoy · May 10th, 2006, 6:35 PM

An update since my last post...

I've determined that the best way to go about verifying user passwords would be to read the encrypted password in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.

I need to give my PHP script read-only access to that file, without changing that file's permissions (it is a system file). Is this possible? Thanks.

EDIT: Oops, I was trying to use popen() instead of fopen(). However I am still curious how one would go about increasing a PHP script's permissions, if anyone knows.

May 10th, 2006, 6:35 PM	#2
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 855 Rep Power: 3	An update since my last post... I've determined that the best way to go about verifying user passwords would be to read the encrypted password in /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow. I need to give my PHP script read-only access to that file, without changing that file's permissions (it is a system file). Is this possible? Thanks. EDIT: Oops, I was trying to use popen() instead of fopen(). However I am still curious how one would go about increasing a PHP script's permissions, if anyone knows.