[H-GEN] finding which user executes a script

[Steven Lawrance]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at uq.net.au> (14 May 2003 22:06 +1000):
> "Greg Fairbrother" <greg at greg.hm> writes:
> > Sorry if this is a dum question, but how do I find out what user is
> > executing a php script, It's to do with my previous post about php and file
> > uploading,
> 
> My advice would be to write a small PHP script that prints a message
> saying "this script was run by <...>" where the brackets are replaced
> by the result of whichever function you call in PHP to find out the
> userid of the process.

What I did to achieve a similar thing was to simply write the uploaded
file to /tmp/<something> and look at it from the shell.

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Steven Lawrance
www.koffein.net

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