Executing System Commands via Web

techi3

I am attempting to build a web form that will be used to launch the below command. However, the backslashes for the command line options are giving me a headache. The web form will have inputs for each option such as Adminuser, Adminpass, Adminhost, Adminport, CMD etc. Below is the actual command line that I am attempting to launch. How could this be done? Thanks.

COMMAND LINE COMMAND:

ftpconfig.exe /ADMINUSER=Administrator /ADMINPASS=password /ADMINHOST=localhost /ADMINPORT=31000 /CMD= adduser /server="Server1" /user=user1 /password=user1password

EXISTING PHP CODE
<? PHP

if (($POST[username] == "") || ($POST[userpasswd]== "")) {

header("Location: createuser.html");
  exit;

else {

$result = $_POST[username];

}

<html>
<head>
<title>FTP Automation Order Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<img src="i3tp_logo.gif" align="top">

<P> The result of the input is: <? echo "$result"; ?></P>
</body>
</html>

sneakyimp

This whole idea sounds really unsafe. Your code doesn't even check the password.

techi3

The snippet didn't contain any checking as of yet, but was put out to find if there is an easy way to accept input in the format requested and launch the commands to create the userID. Apparently, PHP does not have (Or, ease of use) to launch the CLI. I guess Perl would be easier.. Thanks.

sneakyimp

You can't launch ssh or anything, but you can use [man]system[/man], [man]exec[/man], or [man]passthru[/man]

Weedpacket

sneakyimp wrote:
You can't launch ssh or anything

At least, not without a PECL extension....