Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

[Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aaron,

I'm sorry, I don't understand your reply.  Why did you send me a link to 
the exec() function?

You posted that "echo exec('whoami')" didn't work for you, and only 
returned blanks.  I explained why it doesn't work, and gave you an 
alternate command that does.

And you respond by giving me a link to the docs for exec()?  Huh?  Does 
that make any sense?

you ask "could it be a case issue"?  Huh?  I don't know, as I don't know 
what you're doing with the output. The 'echo' commadn would print the 
userid on the screen...   are your eyes case-sensitive?

I guess what I'm saying is... I don't know anything about Wordpress, or 
how it works or how it decides what it does/doesn't have access to.  But 
you asked a specific question about exec('whoami') that I could help 
with, and I tried... and I don't understand the response you gave.



On 12/9/2010 2:04 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> I was using whoami based on the example in this URL:
> http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
>
> Though maybe because I am running on an IBMi it doesn't work the same.
>
> Your suggestion of
>
> echo exec('id -un')
>
> produces "qtmhhttp" (without the quotes)
>
> Could it be a case issue?
>
> Note I did run the following commands but it still isn't allowing PHP to
> write to the directory it is trying to write to:
>
> CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(QTMHHTTP) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> SUBTREE(*ALL)
>
>
> CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(*PUBLIC) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> SUBTREE(*ALL)
>
>
> CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(ZENDADMIN) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> SUBTREE(*ALL)
>
> CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(NOBODY) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> SUBTREE(*ALL)
>
> CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(WORDPRESS) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> SUBTREE(*ALL)
>
> Note that USER(WORDPRESS) is both a user in WordPress and an IBMi profile.
>   I just wanted to test that out to see if it was the case.
>
> I am not sure how much more wide open I can make it other than to do the
> above for '/' (root folder), and I don't really want to do that.
>
> Oh, and Jim, I tried a CHGAUT for QPGMR without luck.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
> www.OpenRPGUI.com
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Scott Klement<web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > I use the 'whoami' command regularly on FreeBSD.  But AFIAK, it has
> > never existed in PASE or QShell.  Did you install/write your own whoami
> > tool?  Or did IBM add one in a newer release? (I'm still stuck on v5r4,
> > and it's driving me nuts.)
> >
> > But anyway, I'd start by checking to see if you have a 'whoami'.
> >
> > Assuming that you don't, I'd try using the 'id' command instead. For
> > example:
> >
> > echo exec('id -un');
> >
> > This is off the top of my head, untested.  Hope it helps.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12/9/2010 10:36 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was able to get WordPress up and running on my IBM i with relative ease
> > > and now I want to install additional plugins.  The issue is that if the
> > user
> > > profile used by the currently running script doesn't have access to the
> > > folder where the plugin is going to be installed, then it will prompt you
> > > for FTP login information.
> > >
> > > Here is an article that talks about the issue:
> > http://hecode.com/why-wordpress-asks-for-connection-info-when-i-try-to-install-new-plugin/
> > > In the article then recommend creating a simple php script with the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > echo exec('whoami');
> > >
> > > I did that, and it is executing successfully (no ZendServer error logs or
> > > warnings) but it returns blanks, so that doesn't help.  I have even gone
> > as
> > > far as giving *PUBLIC all authority to the entire directory structure
> > with
> > > the following command (running V6R1):
> > >
> > >
> > > CHGAUT OBJ('/www/zendsvr') USER(*PUBLIC) DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
> > > SUBTREE(*ALL)
> > >
> > >
> > > Still no go.
> > >
> > > Anybody else resolve this?
> > > Aaron Bartell
> >
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