manually create pop3 users?

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Can anyone tell me what all would be involved in manually creating pop3 users?

Thanks.

[yelvington]

Log in as root. Run "useradd" with the appropriate arguments, setting the shell to /dev/null.

If you want to do this from a Web form, first consider that you're creating a major security hole in your system. Then read a Unix manual section on setting scripts to run suid.

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Required: add email users from a web interfaced script

I was trying to create the user manually, so I could avoid running useradd from my script.

If I DO need to run useradd, do you have any suggestions as to how I can protect my machine when running useradd from my script, which as you point out, must be run as root?