uncompress files via web, without shell access

[sehh]

Some of my domains don't have shell access. Instead of uploading files one by one via ftp (which is insecure) i would like to upload a ZIP or tar.gz via Cpanel's file manager and then uncompress the file on the server.

Anyone knows if this is possible?

Thank you.

[Connie]

Ask support to enable shell for those domains. I'm assuming they are hosted with Jag.

[sehh]

If i wanted to enable SSH i'd have asked exactly that

No i dont want to enable ssh, all i want is to know if its possible to uncompress files via CPanel (maybe there is an existing script that preserves correct ownership permissions?)

[Ron]

I'm not sure that uploading through CPanel in a tarball or .zip is any more secure than ftp. Even if you're connected to CPanel securely, I wonder about their upload facility.

You could always write a really quick script in perl or php-cgi that will unzip a given file as the account owner. The call to it might be:

http://www.domain.com/unzipscript.pl/home/domain/path/file.gz
or
http://www.domain.com/unzipscript.php?zipfile=/home/domain/path/file.gz

or some such, and use the environment variables to get the file path.

BE CAREFUL with something like this, you need to ensure that a malicious user doesn't try to inject commands into the variable, you MUST clean them.