I posted this awild back and no one really new. I got one suggestion for changing the password in PHP by using the passthru command this would work except only root can change passwords for my users and my webserver is run by a user that has no right to change passwords but there own. So I have to append all the information to a file and run the file every 5 minutes from root through crontab this isn't actually just a password changing utility it will add a user to the system and not allow you to change your password BUT the people need to login from the username they add. is there a command similar to --stdin in linux like in Unix?