2008/7/31 David A. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Could you have a web form which collects all the necessary information from > the user, and then sends it to the UNIX server in a file which your > application can parse? That way, users would not be interacting with the > UNIX server at all. >
I think David's absolutely right: this is almost certainly the easiest and most secure way to achieve your stated goal. On submission of the form, the web app would write the submitted data to a file (or database) and feed it to your UNIX app.

