managing Linux Users from within PHP

[grandchouille]

Am trying to get a script that can check the Linux system to be able to do the following things:

• check if a given user exists on the system
• create the user if it doesn't exist
• change user home directory and password
• eventually delete that user

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this? I've been searching the web for weeks for any snippet that might help.

Thanks for your help!

[Moonglobe]

I don't believe that's possible unless apache has root access, which is totally not reccomended.