[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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?

You probably want this article:
Safely Empowering Your CGI Scripts
by Lincoln D. Stein
http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1286/sam03020006/

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