I setup something similar for an ISP once and I had the cgi-bin script
right out the information to a file. Then I had another script that ran
every 10 minutes and setup the user based on the info in the file.
Rob
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience -
well, that comes from poor judgement.
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, James B. Williams II wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just posted a question to the beginners-cgi list yesterday; I'm
> having almost the exact same problem. Both my cgi script and the script
> I am trying to call via system are owned by root, but I'm not sure if
> that is related to the user the cgi script is run as under the web
> server. (Forgive me if my vernacular is incorrect). Anyway, the
> important part is, how do I get the system call to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Daniel Falkenberg wrote:
>
> > I am working on a CGI script that needs to execute this command from
> a
> > sub within the script...
> >
> > system("/usr/sbin/adduser test");
> >
> > I can issue this from a single non-CGI script and it works fine. I
> have
> > also double checked the permission on the file but it still won't
> > execute this system call?
>
> adduser is a system program that should be run as root. If you are
> running this in a CGI environment, you won't be able to run the script
> because the user the CGI script is running as is the same as that of
> your
> web server (probably 'nobody'), and is not allowed to run the program.
>
> -- Brett
>
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