CODEWITHSUNDEEP
linuxenvironment-variables
user4272649
user4272649

Reputation:

Insert Environment variable

Is there any way to insert an Environment variable into a Linux local machine from a website?I just want that when an user clicks on a button from a website,automatically to insert an environment variable into the user linux machine.I need to do this in any web language programming.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 45

Answers (1)

florabtw
florabtw

Reputation: 193

This is definitely not possible - for the same reasons that you can't open files in Javascript from the browser.

Another solution is to allow them to download a bash script and run it on their own. You will need to include instructions to run it, of course. (Don't forget to make it executable chmod +x)

As a side note, this is probably not a good idea in the first place. You could include literally anything in that bash script, and the user (assuming (s)he can't read bash) would just have to trust you. It is generally not advised to run random bash scripts on your computer or allow websites to make modifications to your environment variables.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions