Re: [PHP] adding users on *nix

2002-01-05 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that, but be warned that you're walking on very thin ice (security-wise) to allow such an action. You must be very extra super careful not to get hacked! Not only that you'll be potentially allowing hackers to create users on your machine, but at some time th

Re: [PHP] adding users on *nix

2002-01-04 Thread Jason Bell
you might be better off triggering a back-end script to do that. the script would have to have root privilegf es. I'm not sure if you can "become root" within PHP, but if you trigger a shell script or perl script or something, it can be set SUID to root or something please note that my su