csnyder wrote:
On 7/14/07, Rolan Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<?php
// get $user and $password from $_REQUEST
// validate it
// check to make sure account doesn't exist
`sudo adduser -u $username -p $password -s /sbin/nologin`;
// show confirmation message that says your account has been created.
?>
This will probably get you a C- grade, but it works :)
Wow, we're giving the webserver sudo permissions now?
You don't need system accounts in order to have mailboxes. Use a mail
server that allows virtual user lookup in MySQL. This also allows you
to scale your mail operation across multiple servers.
Dovecot is apparently a good choice, one that I'm considering after
many years with good ol' uw-imap. You can make up virtual UIDs so that
the mailboxes are still owned by individual users or all the mail can
be owned by a single system user. There's a lot of flexibility there,
and good docs on how to get it all integrated with Postfix.
Not an easy project, Shadab, but one that has the potential to teach
you a lot about how internet email works at the nuts and bolts level.
That was just an example of how to set something up in the
simplest/quickest way.
I've set up and still maintain a some large custom made clustered mail
installations using a combination of
postfix/mysql/courier-imap/squirrelmail blended an arsenal of mail
blocking/filtering utilities like dspam, spamassassin, and antivirus.
Some other interesting additions to that were things like a public key
encryption proxy. Perhaps this would make an interesting talk one day,
but it's more of a "systems" project than php one.
~Rolan
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