useradd & php

[Anon]

Hi,

I have been throuogh all of the support forums here pertaining to adding users using PHP. I have tried all the suggestions posted etc... but I still cannot get it to work. I have changed my Apache to run as a different user and group, I have allowed the user su priviledges and nothing seems to work. Any help on getting going in the right direction would be great.

TIA,
John

[khaine]

Do I understand right that you want to add users to your 'nix box with PHP.

[Anon]

John,

I went through quite a bit to do the same in a secure manner. I ended up installing Sudo and giving the webuser permission on it for certain commands.

Then it was a question of defining a sudo library file:

php_sudo.lib.php

$sudo_exec='/path/to/sudo';
$adduser='/path/to/adduser';
$other_commands...

The exec

exec("$sudo_exec $adduser ... ");

Do note: if you plan to give these options to your users, a lot of security and error checking has to be in place.

Let me know if I can assist with more details.

-m.