Re: Creating an FTP account on the fly from PHP

On Thu, March 22, 2007 5:20 pm, PHP Fusebox wrote: > I built a CMS that lets a super user create and manage basic users > (among lots of other things). I want basic users to get an FTP account > that is automatically associated with their website user account, and > managed from my add/edit user form. For example if I create a user > named fred032@myserver.com for him to login to my web app, I want my > users to be able to use their same login name and password to access > their web folder via FTP. > > I am running on LAMP on a CPanel server with ProFTP as the FTP server > software, but I have no clue how to get PHP to be able to create, > edit, or delete an FTP account. Can someone point me in the right > direction? > > I can see the Form field names and URLs in the CPanel forms where this > is set up, but is it safe to CURL these same URLs from my app? That > seems like a big security risk. It's as big a security risk as you make it, with how carefully you write your script, and guard access to it. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?