Re: PHP and useradd

"Nashirak Bosk" <nashirak@mindspring.com> wrote: > 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 I would recommend installing PHP as a CGI and making the script that calls useradd owned by root and implementing some sort of authentication scheme to prevent unauthorized use or I would write the useradd command to a database (or text file) and have a bash script owned by root check it for entries from a cron job and run the commands if entries are found. -- Steve Werby President, Befriend Internet Services LLC http://www.befriend.com/