[wplug] add users via scripts

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Chris assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I know that is going to sound bad, but I can't think of any better
| solutions.  I want to be able to add users to the system via a php page.
| The problem that I am running into is how do I call/usr/sbin/useradd without
| added the user "apache" to the root group.  Is it possible without leaving
| the system wide open?  Oh, the next command that would be ran would be
| /usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin $user.  This is for adding mail only
| users.  I can do it using shell scripting but only if I'm root.  Here are
| the commands that I want to run.
| 
| /usr/sbin/useradd $user;
| /bin/su $user -c "/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir/";
| /usr/sbin/usermod -s /sbin/nologin $user;
| echo "$pass" | /usr/bin/passwd $user;
| /bin/cp ./.qmail /home/$user/;

checkout 'sudo'. give the user your scripts are running under, apache,
permissions to run this file as root.

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