On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:30:59 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glynn S. Condez) wrote:
>Hi All, > >I created a cgi perl script, its an account creation script, means you >can add an account to a linux system. > >my problem is, the cgi can't append the password, shadow and group >file. How can I make my script to work? I don't have any idea now if >its possible to make the script work. When you are asking to do alot with just a simple script. First of all, you need root access to do this, and running anything as root thru cgi is asking for trouble. Usually the answer to this is to use something like suexec, so the web browser runs as a user, then put that user in the sudoers file, with the power to do it. It still is dangerous. Another better solution, is to have the cgi write the requests for user and password change to a file, and run a cron script by root, which periodically checks it for errors, and does the changes. Unless you are really good at this, and few are, it might be best to use an already developed package to do this. Maybe webmin, or whatever, I forget the names. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
