HELP!!! NEED TO ADDUSER!!

[aidude111]

TO ANYONE WHO CAN HELP!!!

I have a php web based email client that takes the current users on your unix box and lets you check the email for that user. OK, no big deal. But it doesnt have a user registration to add new users. What i need is to figure out how to make a user registration script that will actually create the users on my unix box using either adduser or useradd. The fields i need are Real Name, Username, Password, and Email. So basically what i need to figure out how to do create user accounts on my unix box using a php script. I AM NOT A PHP PROGRAMMER, so i will likely not be able to do this on my own. PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!!

Rob

[Anon]

Well,

one idea is to have an HTML form
on a hidden URL like that :

www.server.com/veryprivate/new_account.html

new_account.html :
--- 8< ---
<FORM ACTION="na.php" METHOD="POST">
Login : <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="LOGIN">
Password : <INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="PASSWORD">

</FORM>
--- 8< ---

So you type the login and the password of the
user and then the form call the PHP program :

na.php :
--- 8< ---
<PHP
$cmd="useradd -o $LOGIN -p $PASSWORD ";
system ($cmd);
print "Confirmation : new account created";

--- 8< ---

it's very "quicky and dirty"

The email will be : [e-mail]

Also the "real name" is on the client
side (Eudora, Outlook, etc.) to set
up.

If the email address has to be
manually choose (you want to be able to
choose an other address like [e-mail]),
then you need to know how to do that on
your box (it depend of your SMTP/POP
server) (useradd has nothing to do with
that)