Need help with shell_exec(), exec(), passthru(), functions, etc.

[tarlejh]

So I am trying to have PHP execute shell commands or programs, in particular svn and rsync.

 

It's useless.  It executes cd and pwd, just fine, and will even run a shell script, but I have no luck executing svn, rsync, or even whoami, by themselves, or within a shell script.

 

PHP is running as "nobody" which I think is the root cause of this.  So, how can I give user nobody permission to access our svn repository or at least run rsync?