PHP class/scripts for manipulating users under *nix systems.

[ftrudeau]

Greetings PHP folks.

Asked Google a little about this, and I did not found much. There seams to be nothing in Pear also. Let me know if you already found something, somewhere, before I start coding it myself 😉 I just dont want to re-invent the wheel here. What Im looking for is some base class / scripts that will manipulate users under linux, ie : add a user, remove a user, change passwd, change homedir, handle groups, and the sorts.

Thanks for any pointers.

[drawmack]

I've not seen anything on this and I surf for hard to find tutorials when I'm borad.

[superwormy]

I would expect that you're going to run into a lot of hurdles trying to do this. PHP usually runs as a very unprivilidged user, www, nobody, or apache, and usually won't have permissions to edit user login information.

I suspect that you might be able to use 'sudo' or 'su' to get the correct permissions... but it could be a rather large security issue.

From the command line this might be easier... but then I don't see the advantage over adduser, passwd, etc...

[Moonglobe]

is this going to be an intranet thing? or is it going to be live?

you can run anything thru PHP if safe_mode is Off by means of [man]exec/man and [man]shell_exec/man, so just use those to do system calls.......