[PHP] apache (root) + php4

[Michelle Konzack]

Hello *,

for an half hour I was at a new customer and they run apache 1.3 as
root on am IntranetServer because they need to admin there Fileserver
via php.

Now some problems:

1)  They use exec("mcrypt ....") to generate UNIX passwords for
    /etc/shadow and I like to know, how I can create suitable md5
    passwords for it from php.

2)  I like to run apache as www-data and not as root.  How I must
    setup php/apache that I can do root-stuff because I need to run

    exec("useradd -c $WA_COMMENT         -d $WA_HOME_DIR      \
                  -e $WA_EXPIRE_DATE     -f $WA_INACTIVE_TIME \
                  -g $WA_INITIAL_GROUP   -G $WA_GROUPS        \
                  -m -k $WA_SKELETON_DIR -s $WA_SHELL         \
                  -u $WA_UID -p $WA_PASS_MCRYPT $WA_LOGIN")

Thanks and nice wekend
Michelle

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