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

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

You need to take into account my entire first post to understand where I am
coming from.

No biggie though.  Thanks for your response.

Aaron Bartell
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On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Scott Klement <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.