I would highly recommend against doing this, this would work but it
would open you up to allowing your webserver user/php to add any user to
your system. This is beyond a bad idea.
Jason.
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 06:46, Adam Voigt wrote:
> Check out "sudo", with man pages or what not, you use
> the command "visudo" to define who can run what commands
> as root. And then in your php, you just do:
>
> exec("sudo adduser");
>
> With whatever parameters you need to adduser.
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:37, Patrick Armour wrote:
>
> I am trying to use a form (password protected of course) that will
> allow an administrator to add POP accounts to a linux box. The
> problem that I seem to have is that the form is trying to give the
> commands as user 'nobody' and they need to be given by either root
> or a superuser.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish this? If somebody were to point me
> in the direction of a tutorial on this subject I would really
> appreciate it.
>
> Sincerely,
> Patrick Armour
>
> www.greatplainsinternet.com
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> The Cryptocomm Group
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