I use a package called sudo which allows you to give limited root rights to the
user that your webserver is running as. Using this I'm able to add/delete a user
from a PHP script and also change passwords using poppassd.
http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/
Chris
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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to execute a shell command in a php
> script? I am trying to execute the following:
>
> /usr/sbin/cadduser -d www.domain.com -f Adrian -u testing -p testing -q 10 -w
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have tried passthru(), system(), exec() and none seem to work. I also tried
> the backtick and that never worked. Any ideas anyone?
>
> Adrian
>
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