[Phpwm] Changing the scripts user

[Andy Cowan]

On 17 Mar 2009, at 12:40, Mike Tipping wrote:

> I have a script running on a clients windows (under IIS) server  
> which is
> trying to use file_get_contents() to access a csv file from yahoo  
> finance.
> Works fine on my Linux test server but the windows user account that  
> is
> running the website on the clients server doesn't have the right to  
> access
> external websites so the script fails.
>
> And the client won't enable that right on the user.
>
> Is there a way in the PHP script I can change the user that is  
> running the
> script or get file_get_contents() to execute as a different user?
>


No - if you think about it, the point of having a permissions system  
is to prevent people/processes from doing things they aren't allowed  
to - usually a permissions system will allow you to drop permissions  
you don't need, but shouldn't provide a way of acquiring permissions  
you don't have.

You have two choices AFAICS, give the IIS user permission to access  
remote sites, or run your script in a new application pool under IIS  
as a different user that does have permissions to access remote sites.

It's not a PHP problem, it's an OS problem I'm afraid.

Cheers,

A.