Originally Posted by borked

he can get all necessary info from phpinfo();
and anything else via the odd script or two. It's a pain for some things, but I've never been stuck because I didn't have shell (cmd line) access - all can be done with scripts.

if you want to give me specifics over IM what he's trying to do I'll tell you whether he can *only* do it from the shell, but I doubt it...