Apache/PHP/Perl exec() problem

[jmaynard]

I am running the following code on my Apache server to return the error since my script without 2<&1 returns no data:

== x.php
$run = "/usr/bin/perl x.pl 2<&1";
exec($run, $output, $input);
$count = count($output);
echo "Element count is " . $count . "<br>";
$test = $output[0];
print $test;

== x.pl
use Net::Telnet:isco::IOS;
$connection = Net::Telnet:isco::IOS->new(Host => "router");
$connection->login("xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx");
@interfaces = $connection->listInts();
foreach $int ( @interfaces )
{
$desc = $connection->getIntDesc( $int );
$intip = $connection->getIntIP( $int );
printf("%10s: %30s: %20s: %100s: %s","Interface", $int, $intip, $desc, "\n\n");
}

When I run the php x.php file from a web broswer I get:

problem connecting to "router", port 23: Permission denied at x.pl line 23

When I run it from a command line I get:

Element count is 18<br> Interface: FastEthernet0/0:

On my Windows development machine I do not have this problem and have run into a brick wall trying to figure it out. Can someone please help??

[notageek]

I suspect Apache user doesn't have the relevant privilege to run the following code

$connection = Net::Telnet::Cisco::IOS->new(Host => "router");
$connection->login("xxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxx");
@interfaces = $connection->listInts();

You may have to either configure sudo or use the Apache suexec module.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/suexec.html

[jmaynard]

I do show suexec to be compiled on my machine. In addition, I have set the apache user permission to log in and when I log in as that user I can run the php script and obtain the desired result. While I agree that there apprears to be a permission problem I do not think it is in the script portion. I have additional parts of the script that do not do a socket call that work fine. The permissions appear to be related to the socket call in the Net::Telnet portion of the script.

Can you advise if apache 2.2 has some additional permissions in relation to sockets?