Hello
Thanks for the reply. Yes this server is running mod perl :) As for risky. Well the whole point of the script system is to add a pop mail box for a user. But in order to do this i have to do the following: add user to the passwd/shadow file add user to the virtusertable and genericstable recompile the sendmail config files Then and only then is the new mailbox ready for use. This is the only way I can think of to accomplish this via an automated web proccess. I dont even know if you can do it any other way with out touching the passwd/shadow files? Thanks! John. > You're doing something pretty risky there. the passwd/shadow files are only > writable by root. So I suppose that when running them from the command line > you run them as root. Apache doesn't run as root (its children which serve > the requests atleast), so mod_perl (I suppose you *are* using mod_perl? If > not, this is more appropriate for another newsgroup) won't either. > > If you can run your script as CGI, you could use suEXEC. But really, really > consider the security implications of what you're doing there before > allowing users to trash your machine very fast... > > > -- > Per Einar Ellefsen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
