Re: Root Commands

Yeah, it's a bad idea, but he wants to be able to add email accounts to the system, and not have to use a database for his mail users. So there you go. On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:30, Jason Sheets wrote: I would highly recommend against doing this, this would work but it would open you up to allowing your webserver user/php to add any user to your system. This is beyond a bad idea. Jason. On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 06:46, Adam Voigt wrote: > Check out "sudo", with man pages or what not, you use > the command "visudo" to define who can run what commands > as root. And then in your php, you just do: > > exec("sudo adduser"); > > With whatever parameters you need to adduser. > > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:37, Patrick Armour wrote: > > I am trying to use a form (password protected of course) that will > allow an administrator to add POP accounts to a linux box. The > problem that I seem to have is that the form is trying to give the > commands as user 'nobody' and they need to be given by either root > or a superuser. > > Is there any way to accomplish this? If somebody were to point me > in the direction of a tutorial on this subject I would really > appreciate it. > > Sincerely, > Patrick Armour > > www.greatplainsinternet.com > -- > Adam Voigt (adam@cryptocomm.com) > The Cryptocomm Group > My GPG Key: > http://64.238.252.49:8080/adam_at_cryptocomm.asc -- Adam Voigt (adam@cryptocomm.com) The Cryptocomm Group My GPG Key: http://64.238.252.49:8080/adam_at_cryptocomm.asc

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