RE: [PHP] Page that checks if a user exists on a remote system

Hi! Have you thougt of writing the userdata to a database and running a perl script by cron to do the rest? This would be an interesting opinion for security purpose. Stefan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jonathan Duncan [mailto:jonathan@nacnud.com] > Gesendet: Freitag, 3. Dezember 2004 18:55 > An: php-general@lists.php.net > Betreff: Re: [PHP] Page that checks if a user exists on a remote system > > Christophe, > > I see where you are coming from with that, but the purpose of this script > is to remove me from the picture completely. I want someone to be able to > come sign up on my site and automatically be added as a mail user and > other things so that I do not need to do that kind of thing. > > I am looking to do like Hotmail, or Yahoo!, or Mail.com, or any of the > other places do. I can go sign up on their site and immediately have an > e-mail account that I can start using. No admin has to take the time to > create my account for me. > > Does that make sense? Does that explain better why I am trying to do > this? Has not anyone else wanted that functionality also? > > Thank you, > Jonathan Duncan > > > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Christophe Chisogne wrote: > > > Jonathan Duncan wrote: > >> I will also be doing a remote command to add a user to the remote > system > >> (ServerB) from the same PHP script. > > > > If you want to manage a server via web interface, dont reinvent > > the wheel. Use webmin, by example. > > > > Webmin runs a mini "webserver" as root (on port 10000), > > and uses modules for managing users, proftp, apache, etc > > > > Of course, I dont know what you want to do. > > > > Christophe > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php