[wplug] add users via scripts

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Devin Lee Drew assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:57, Bob Schmertz wrote:
| Another possibility is to have a cron script for root which reads from
| an apache/php writable file the parameters you want for adding the user.
| Risk: holes in your php apps could allow someone to create a user for
| themselves. 
| 
| Maybe also consider something like webmin rather than reinventing the
  
wouldn't this require the user to have the root password? it's been a while
since i've used webmin, but when i played around with it in the past i
believe i had to have the root password to run things like addin users.

i really think sudo is ideal for what he wants to do.

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