Re: [lcd4linux] start/stop LCD4LINUX from webserver

[Piet v. d. B. <pi...@pi...>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your reply.
I use a lcd on a USB port with lcd2usb interface.
It works now.

regards Piet

On 19 Feb 2007 at 6:44, Michael Reinelt wrote:

> Hi Piet,
> 
> > How can I start stop LCD4LINUX from a PHP script running
> > on an Apache webserver.
> > When i use exec() the command is refused because the user is
> > apache and lcd4linux only allows to run from root user.
> 
> No, that's not true. Basically LCD4Linux could run as any user. But
> there's a security check, it refuses to work if the config file (usually
> /etc/lcd4linux.conf) does not belong to the current user, and/or group
> or others have access to it.
> 
> So if you want to run lcd4linux as 'apache', make shure that
> /etc/lcd4linux.conf is owned by apache, too, and that it's permissions
> are 0600. Depending on your display, the user apache must have access to
> the LCD device, too.
> 
> 
> HTH, Michael
> 
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