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  • I already knew it was a security breach, but since i'm just experimenting on a development server to learn i was going to let it pass. But fair enough, i'll do it the way it should be done. Your idea sounds fine except i need to create the user instantly, it has to be done as soon the PHP script goes off. Any ideas how to solve that? Thank you btw! Commented Sep 5, 2012 at 10:59
  • Sounds like this could be something for a named pipe. Named pipes are typical methods for inter-process-communication on Unix (and meanwhile on other systems too). For an introduction you may read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe Commented Sep 5, 2012 at 12:13
  • I've been fibbling with named pipes for some time now and i really can't figure out how to actually use it for my purpose. I understand the principle of named pipes, but can't apply it to my needs. This is how i imagine it would work: Send data (in my case username and password) to named pipe from PHP, no root needed. I have another process running (with root access) which constantly reads from the pipe, and then executes the script with root access. Am i on the right track? If so, my question is, how do i create that other process that runs with root access and constantly reads from the pipe? Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 11:53