shell - PHP sudo in shell_exec

Question

I want to execute a command as root with shell_exec. Now I know this is dangerous, but believe me, you need to login with MOD_AUTH and have the right privilleges to come to this page. It's secure. How can I get this done?

Answer 1

The problem isn't that your page is or isn't secure, the problem is that giving a php page the ability to run some sudo command would give it to all pages including any injected code on any insecure page on any site on the server.

That said, it might be best to make a wrapper script that does just the one job that needs doing, then give the http user access to just that ONE command as sudo

http  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/user/local/bin/your_wrapper_script.sh