Running exec as a different user

Question

Is it possible to run exec() as a a different user (on my box it runs as www-data). I wish to execute a script that needs access to files that are not owned by www-data.

Answer 1

You can change the user under which your server runs. This can be easily done using the windows version of apache (apache runs there as service and it is easy to configure the user under which apache runs).

Which server plattform do you use?