I suppose that your web server is running with non-privileged user.
In this case you have to use sudo (man sudo). Also you have to make some
checks like
if (ereg("[|;,:`'\\\"]", $_POST[PASSWORD]) || ereg("[|;,:`'\\\"]",
$_POST{USERNAME])) {
die "Invalid username or password.";
}
Remember that
hello Mr. Thomas,
thanks for the quick reply. i implimented your code. let me know what's wrong with my
code.
newuser.htm:
html
head
body
form action = "signup.php" method = post
Username: input type = text size = 30 name = "USERNAME"
Password: input type = password size = 30 name = "PASSWORD
Try checking out the exec() function
http://us4.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
Should start out with 3 input boxes.
USERNAME
PASSWORD
VERIFYPASSWORD
IF ($_POST/GET[PASSWORD] == $_POST/GET[VERIFYPASSWORD]){
exec("/path/to/useradd -p $_POST/GET[PASSWORD]
$_POST/GET[USERNAME]");
}
Th
