Hi Rory, Am 2005-09-03 17:04:19, schrieb Rory Browne:
> I'm not totally sure on the format of the passwords in /etc/shadow,
> but can you do anything with php's md5 function? If not, then perhaps
> the mcrypt extension may do something for you.
Unfortunatly not, because
echo -n "michellesecret" |md5sum
or
md5("michellesecret")
produce: 28c2f05403caaa750df55efadeebd9ed
but in /etc/shadow you find: $1$.NV7oLhO$Gj/ztvspUcpcJ5iUJiXNo0
I do not find the right syntax and options to produce the later string.
> First of all you inform your client that they are insane. Running
> apache as root is completely unnecessary.
Who tell you this?
I have gotten this job because the original (external) maintainer
of the systems is not more availlable. The systems are horrible!
I need to reinstall from scratch.
> to perform the above I'd use a combination of
> suExec/suPHP/somethingLikeThat and sudo. I'd create a user called
I have no experience with it...
> webuserman (Web User Manager), or something like that, and have the
> script run as webuserman. I'd change the useradd..... to sudo
> useradd....., and mod the /etc/sudoers file to allow webuserman user
> to call the useradd command as root(through sudo).
OK, I wil check suExec and suPHP out.
> If you are a lazy bastard, with very little concern for security(which
> it seems you're not), you could simply run the script as www-data, and
> have sudo allow www-data to do an adduser. I would oppose this
> however, in that any php script would be able to use it.
OK, this is what I have curently and it works fine but security...
The users have there ~/public_html so they can addusers as they like.
I think, its not so good.
> Also make sure you escape your shell arguments.
:-)
Greetings
Michelle
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