on 7/8/01 4:30 AM, INFO (www.trade-revenues.com) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > If I want to add a system user from the web interface using Apache + > Redhat 6.2. What language should I use. Should I use PHP or Bash or Perl. > Which one is the best ?? I know PHP can always exec shell command using > exec() function. But, the apache server is set to nobody.. So I can not > exec the root command from the web interface. Advice is need in this > situation. if you want to use a web interface, you're stuck with the user that apache runs as. (nobody in your case) one option is to have the web application create a file, and then have a cron job as root come by and read the file and add the user(s). -- mike cullerton -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]