Create user coding verification using PHP

[Anon]

I was told that creating a Linux system user using PHP3 in 2 ways:

1) system("adduser $username");
system("echo 'mypass' | passwd --stdin
$username");

2) int vm_adduser (string vdomain, string basepwd,
string newusername, string newuserpassword)

• So which one is the reliable one ?
• How diffrence these 2 are from each other ?

[Anon]

I've not used either method, but the 1st one is using systems commands to create the user and so should be reliable on any *nix system that you are using it on. The second one is a call to a function vm_adduser and may be written specifically for one type of system over another.

I'd suggest that you figure out how to add a user from the command line on your system and then create a function that does that for you using the first method.