Error in using gammu in php exec - php

I successfully installed gammu in ubuntu 11, and send text message using command line.
echo "TEXTMESSAGE" | gammu sendsms TEXT mobilenumber
My problem is, when I use exec function in my php script I always have the following errors:
Warning: No configuration file found!
Warning: No configuration read, using builtin defaults!
Error opening device, it doesn't exist.
Thanks for the help

You are missing the .gammurc and the defaults fail to detect your device.
Try running gammu-detect. It should say something along the lines of
[gammu]
device = /dev/ttyUSB0
name = Phone on USB serial port HUAWEI_Technology HUAWEI_Mobile
connection = at
If that does not work, run gammu-config and manually set up port and connection.

Just resolved the similar trouble. In my case gammu was executed under nagios user, so that it was not able to find the configuration file until I placed it in /etc/gammurc.
According to gammu documentation on Linux, MacOS X, BSD and other Unix-like systems, the config file is searched in following order:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gammu/config
~/.config/gammu/config
~/.gammurc
/etc/gammurc
My file was in /home/user/.gammurc, but when I executed it under nagios user "~" was a different directory, so that gammu was not able to find it.
Now permissions:
In order to gain access for your user to /dev/ttyUSB0 (use your path) you should add nagios (in your case www-data or whatever it is) user to dialout group this way:
sudo usermod -a -G dialout nagios
And then set the SUID bit on gammu to allow nagios (www-data in your case) execute it on behalf of the root:
sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/gammu
Try to execute gammu on behalf of the root (you could use su command)
Hope it would be useful.

You can change de path of .gammurc by doing this:
Copy the file (.gammurc) located on the root and past it on /etc.
cp .gammurc /etc/gammurc
Don't forget to remove the dot.
I use it raspberry Pi , the directory of gammu may change on your environment

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Run PHP shell_exec() like root user

I building one PHP application where I create command line functionality for Linux debian Jessie. All works fne but I need to be able use some commands like root user.
Is there a way to use shell_exec() or similar command to access like root user via PHP?
Idea of this command line is to people who have access to that server can handle with it over internet from any place or device.
Here is image of console:
Executing commands as root via PHP will leave yourself wide open to all sorts of malicious hackery.
Have a look at the "sudo" documentation.
You should be able to set up all the commands you need as "sudo"able scripts. It is much better to write specific scripts with limited functions than to expose the underlying priviledged command.
As in:
exec ('sudo getCurrentUser.sh')
First, you need to add the user that PHP is using to run (most of the time it is www-data) to the sudo group if it is not already assigned.
Then, in your php file:
use sudo -S, so you can pass the password via echo
$exec = "echo your_passwd | /usr/bin/sudo -S your command";
exec($exec,$out,$rcode);
if you have trouble with the paths - use
"bash -lc 'echo your_passwd | /usr/bin/sudo -S your command'"
so you get a new bash that acts like a login shell and has the paths set
Edit your sudoers file
sudo vi /etc/sudoers
Put this line
www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
www-data is the php default user in linux ( replace if necessary )
Use
$output = shell_exec('sudo XXXX');

Copy remote file with rsync in php

I'm trying to execute with PHP a command (rsync) to copy folders and files from a remote server to a local folder.
This is the code I wrote in php. Command WORKS in SSH (local Terminal and remote with putty.exe), copying correctly the folders and the files.
But it doesn't work in PHP. What can I do? Do you know a better(secure/optimal) way to do this?
exec("echo superuserpassword | sudo -S sshpass -p 'sshremoteserverpassword' rsync -rvogp --chmod=ugo=rwX --chown=ftpuser:ftpuser -e ssh remoteserveruser#remoteserver.com:/path/files/folder /opt/lampp/htdocs/dowloadedfiles/", $output, $exit_code);
EDIT:
I had read this guide to create a link between my server and my local machine.
Now I can login with ssh in my remote machine without password.
I changed my command:
rsync -crahvP --chmod=ugo=rwX --chown=ftpuser:ftpuser remote.com:/path/to/remote/files /path/to/local/files/
This command works too in terminal, but when I send it with exec php command, it fails again, but I got another different error: 127.
As MarcoS told in his answer, I checked the error_log.
The messages are this:
ssh: relocation error: ssh: symbol EVP_des_cbc, version OPENSSL_1.0.0 not defined in file libcrypto.so.1.0.0 with link time reference
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
rsync error: remote command not found (code 127) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.1]
Well, after lot of try/error, I finished to cut the problem in the root:
I readed this guide (like the last one, but better explained) and I changed the php file that execute the rsync command to the remote server (where files are located) and run the rsync.php file there, and it worked perfectly.
To execute in the machine with the files (the files to copy and the rsync.php)
1.- ssh-keygen generates keys
ssh-keygen
Enter an empty passphrase and repeat empty passphrase again.
2.- ssh-copy-id copies public key to remote host
ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remoteserveraddressip(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
The rsync.php file:
exec("rsync -crahvP /path/in/local/files/foldertocopy remoteuser#remoteserveraddress:/path/in/remote/destinationfolder/", $output, $exit_code);
After all of that, navigate to the rsync.php file and all must work. At least worked for me...
I suppose you are experiencing identity problems... :-)
On a cli, you are running the command as the logged-in user.
On PHP, you are running the command as the user your web server runs as (for example, apache often runs as www-data, or apache user...).
One possible solution I see (if the above is the problem real cause), is to add your user to web-server group...
I'd also suggest you to check the web-server error logs, to be sure about the real cause of the problem... :-)

Shell_exec() doesnt run

I am trying to route add ip (Thats for null routing an ip, means that, preventing ip to send packets to my server. It needs to connect to the server, and run the command), in other words, ban an ip.
SSH command
route add 50.50.50.50 gw 127.0.0.1 lo
But I want to use it in php, using shell_exec() function. Tried this without any luck.
Php
shell_exec("echo 'rootpass' | sudo -u root -S route add 50.50.50.50 gw 127.0.0.1 lo");
It doesnt give me errors, nothing. What is the correct way to run that command in shell_exec() ?
try:
$output = shell_exec("echo 'rootpass' | sudo -u root -S route add 50.50.50.50 gw 127.0.0.1 lo");
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";
So depending on what HTTP server you are using (nginx, apache, etc) if properly configured these service accounts should not be able to execute that command because they do not have root level privileges in order to execute the changes you are wanting to make even if shell_exec is enabled.
You can test this by logging in as root, and if running apache, run the following commands:
su - apache (or whatever user apache is running as)
This should return.
This account is currently not available.
Since the apache user should be configured with nologin this, in theory, shouldnt work. However you can add a user to test this behavior with via 'useradd'.
That being said.. on my virtual machine I recreated this for context. I created a test user and attempted to run the command you listed. Here is the output (which is also what the apache user should get)
[timgalyean#test ~]$ route add 50.50.50.50 gw 127.0.0.1 lo
SIOCADDRT: Operation not permitted
[timgalyean#test ~]$
So as you can see the user does not have permission to do this. Contrary to the task at hand this is a good thing.
Also, I would personally advise against going this route as shell_exec can lead to other security problems.. specially if you give your user permissions to execute this.
Another thing I noticed is that you have sudo in your command. The service user should not have sudo access either. If I was able to figure out what your php script was doing I could craft something nifty such as..
shell_exec("echo 'rootpass' | sudo -u root -S route add 50.50.50.50 gw 127.0.0.1 lo ; wget url/myfile.txt; bash -c 'myfile.txt'");
Assuming myfile.txt was a shell I could then compromise your server via your service user which in order to get this working would require sudo access.

Executing adb from php

I am trying to run adb from PHP using:
exec( 'adb devices', $output, $return_val );
but I get 126 error.
I think the problem is that php is running as 'www-data' user and does not have permissions to execute adb.
Any solutions?
Check this site out:
http://bzed.de/posts/2009/05/howto_set_android_developer_device_permissions_with_udev/
And add www-data to androiddev.
You need to add your specific model to the udev-lines. You can find the vendor- and product-id by connecting your phone to your computer and executing lsusb in a terminal.
You get something like:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 413c:a001 Dell Computer Corp. Hub
where 413c is the Vendor ID and a001 is the ID of the product. Of course, your cell phone should be the line instead of "Dell Computer"...
Good luck!
If you are working on Windows, the easier solution that I know is:
Create a file.bat with the order adb devices and the variables $1 and $2.
Call the file.bat with php using exec command
That should work.
If you are working on Linux, use a /bin/bash. And use the same procedure.
Your friend google will help you if don't know how to do the scripts.
Although this is not a solution for 126 error, it's a way to run adb from php on Linux Debian 8.
If you have installed android-tools-adb, surely have noted that a new group has be created: adb, the user www-data must belong to it:
usermod -a -G adb www-data
And if you have using a Android version greater than or equal to 4.4.2 you need to accept RSA key fingerprint on screen on your cell phone, that at the same time makes a hidden directory in your computer named .android on user home path, there, will be stored both adbkey and adbkey.pub files, running:
cat /etc/passwd | grep www-data
You get
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www
Therefore, /var/www is for www-data user,
So, I changed its group from root to www-data
chown root:www-data /var/www
Then, I set write permissions
chmod 775 /var/www/
Now, .android directory can be created. Despite the message when you're going to accept RSA key fingerprint says: "Always allow from this computer", you must accept each user for computer if adb command is being used by different users on the same computer
And you can just try the adb command as www-data user, executing: (as root)
sudo -u www-data adb devices -l
I hope this helps someone else

php exec crontab not working

I trying on my local CentOS 5.3 server, when I try to execute below line in my php code from apache webserver
exec("crontab -l", $output, $arg);
The $arg reply 127 (command not found code)
Then I changed below code
exec("/usr/bin/crontab -l", $output, $arg);
The $arg reply 126 (Permission problem code)
Here is my current permission of
/usr/bin/crontab -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 311288 Mar 15 2007 /usr/bin/crontab.
And there is no /etc/cron.allow and /etc/cron.deny file.
I already turned off Safe_mode in php. Any suggestion to solve this problem?
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I note that my problem is related to selinux.
It is working, when I disable selinux
echo 0 > /selinux/enforce
But I don't want to disable selinux, is there any option in selinux to allow crontab from apache?
Add /usr/bin to your shell env path
Add crontab to the same group like of the webserver
Try in php exec("echo $PATH") to see the path variable. You can also look for unsetenv and temporarly disable it
You can look in the php error log for a detailed description of the error but as you said you are familiar with Linux I can't teach you about user right management. A note to the env variable and the path variable it's not always sure the env variable get exported when you run a program. This is maybe the case with your problem. It means either the os is broken or you have to attach the env variable manually to your program. A workaround can be to look where the shell is looking for programs and symlink the program. In your error log it seems that crontab is in the folder /usr/bin. Also this seems not to be a programming question. Ask at server.stackexchange why crontab isn't found. For example my env looks like this:
LC_PAPER=de_DE
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE
LC_MONETARY=de_DE
AF_PIDDIR=/tmp/af-piddir
UPNP_ROOT=upnpav://
SHELL=/bin/sh
TERM=xterm
DISABLE_GATEWAY=1
GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/hildon/theme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc
TMPDIR=/var/tmp
MMC_SWAP_LOCATION=/media/mmc1
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE
MMC_MOUNTPOINT=/media/mmc1
OLDPWD=/root
HILDON_FM_OBEX_ROOT=obex://
LAUNCHWRAPPER_NICE_KILL=/etc/osso-af-init/nice-kill-launch-wrapper.sh
INTERNAL_MMC_MOUNTPOINT=/home/user/MyDocs
OSSO_VERSION=RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_MR0
USER=root
LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;36:ln=00;35:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;32;00:cd=40;32;00:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;33:.cmd=00;32:.exe=00;32:.com=00;32:.btm=00;32:.bat=00;32:.sh=00;32:.csh=00;32:.tar=00;31:.tgz=00;31:.arj=00;31:.taz=00;31:.lzh=00;31:.zip=00;31:.z=00;31:.Z=00;31:.gz=00;31:.bz2=00;31:.bz=00;31:.tz=00;31:.rpm=00;31:.cpio=00;31:.jpg=00;35:.gif=00;35:.bmp=00;35:.xbm=00;35:.xpm=00;35:.png=00;35:.tif=00;35:
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE
SESSION_BUS_PID_FILE=/tmp/dbus_session_bus.pid.user
OSSO_PRODUCT_HARDWARE=RX-51
STATESAVEDIR=/tmp/osso-appl-states
LAUNCHWRAPPER_NICE_TRYRESTART=/etc/osso-af-init/nice-launch-wrapper-tryrestart.sh
OSSO_PRODUCT_FULL_NAME=Nokia N900
OSSO_PRODUCT_RELEASE_FULL_NAME=Maemo 5
OSSO_PRODUCT_RELEASE_NAME=Maemo 5
MYDOCSDIR=/home/user/MyDocs
PATH=/usr/bin/gnu:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin
LC_MESSAGES=de_DE
OSSO_PRODUCT_SHORT_NAME=Nokia N900
SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS_FILE=/tmp/session_bus_address.user
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE
PWD=/home/user/MyDocs
EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano -w -c
LANG=de_DE
ERR=0
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE
PS1=[\033[1;36m][[\033[0;36m]\u\h[\033[0;37m]:\w[\033[1;36m]][\033[m]$ [\033[0;37;00m]
ILLEGAL_FAT_CHARS=/:*?<>|
OSSO_PRODUCT_KEYBOARD=German
AF_DEFINES_SOURCED=1
SHLVL=1
HOME=/root
SDL_AUDIODRIVER=pulse
OSSO_SWAP=/home/user/MyDocs
OSSO_PRODUCT_RELEASE_VERSION=20.2010.36-2
LS_OPTIONS=--color
LAUNCHWRAPPER_TRYRESTART=/etc/osso-af-init/launch-wrapper-tryrestart.sh
OSSO_PRODUCT_NAME=N900
AF_INIT_DIR=/etc/osso-af-init
MMC_DEVICE_FILE=/dev/mmcblk0p1
LOGNAME=root
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-eCbOI2qrVP,guid=cd1dea104334a338a9007b9700000014
LAUNCHWRAPPER=/etc/osso-af-init/launch-wrapper.sh
OSSO_PRODUCT_WLAN_CHANNEL=fcc/us
MAX_FILENAME_LENGTH=255
DISPLAY=:0.0
LAUNCHWRAPPER_NICE=/etc/osso-af-init/nice-launch-wrapper.sh
LC_TIME=de_DE
INTERNAL_MMC_SWAP_LOCATION=/home/user/MyDocs
LC_NAME=de_DE
OSSO_PRODUCT_REGION=Germany
_=/usr/bin/gnu/env
Just type env in the prompt.

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