How to connect as linux root user in php [duplicate]

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How to run PHP exec() as root?

Hey Guys,

I need to connect the linux root user in php.

i hosted my file in var/www/html/connect.php

I need to execute one shell_exec script. It says it "Only root user can login".

How can i change that? or Please help me to sort the problem.

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Usually php/apache executes the php files using the www-data user. if you need to execute your shell, all you need to do is to give the corresponding permissions to www-data for that file using chmod

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you need to give apache (or whatever is running php) sudo rights to the server, than you can run as root, bu doing:

sudo command