At 01:33 AM 07/25/2001, Mel Matsuoka wrote:
>Off the top of my head, perhaps a more secure method would be to have your
>CGI script serve as a "wrapper" to pass username/passwd data to another
>script (which has root or sudo root execute permissions) which is located
>outside the webserver/cgi root that actually performs the adduser functions.
I should have also mentioned that your "wrapper" script should perform
sanity-checks-from-hell before it ever even gets close to the adduser script.
Needless to say, being that this is a "beginners" list, I would have to say
that this is probably not the most recommended application to be learning
Perl on ;)
Aloha,
mel
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