Running command-line application from PHP as specific user

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One solution is using sudo(8):

exec('sudo -u myuser ls /');

You will, obviously, need to setup sudo(8) to allow the user running your webserver to invoke it. Editing the sudoers file with visudo(8), you can use something like:

wwwuser ALL=/usr/bin/rhythmbox-client

To prevent Apache from being able to run other commands and only the rythymbox command.

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