PHP and useradd

Ok. I have looked at all my options for creating account dynamically from a webpage, and have not come up with much. I want to create an user account that only creates a mail account. I think I can do this with the useradd command (I am running Linux). Like this: useradd accountname -s /bin/false then I could su into the accountname and run the passwd command. Now I could do this, with PHP using the popen() function. There is only 1 problem. I would have to run all this as root since only root is able to run this command. And even if I could it would be a big no no to somehow make PHP become root and then run this command. Any other suggestions on how to create an account dynamically with PHP or how to modify what I about the useradd command to get this to work? Thanks -- ------------------------------- Clayton Bluhm Computer Engineering Student gte501v@prism.gatech.edu (School) nashirak@mindspring.com (home)