On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Daniel Falkenberg wrote:
> I am working on a CGI script that needs to execute this command from a
> sub within the script...
>
> system("/usr/sbin/adduser test");
>
> I can issue this from a single non-CGI script and it works fine. I have
> also double checked the permission on the file but it still won't
> execute this system call?
adduser is a system program that should be run as root. If you are
running this in a CGI environment, you won't be able to run the script
because the user the CGI script is running as is the same as that of your
web server (probably 'nobody'), and is not allowed to run the program.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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