Looking for direction, ideas suggestions, help etc.
SuSE 11
Perl (happy with perl)i see far too many people trying to exploit php vunrebilities in my apache log files!
Apache2
Bash
html
Running perl cgi scripts from a basic auth protected directory is not a problem. Running perl cgi scripts isn’t a problem either.
What i’m wanting to do is create a Webform that will allow me to create new users on the system and then create additional files and directories at the same time then create a vhost entry for apache2 and restart apache2.
I reckon i can do most of these but how can i create a new user on the system from a webform? I guess i need to pull in the use of a bash script as root, but how.
Depends on which backend language you have to receive the POST’d data
from the web form. For example posting to a web server that has PHP
there would allow you to (VERY CAREFULLY and with LOTS OF CHECKS) call
the ‘useradd’ command directly with the username and then the passwd
command with the desired password (if applicable). PHP has the ‘exec’
and ‘system’ commands for this, as I recall. Other languages have other
calls, but keep in mind that these only run with the privileges of the
web server which should never be ‘root’ (Apache uses ‘wwwrun’ as I recall).
Good luck.
akwe-xavante wrote:
| Looking for direction, ideas suggestions, help etc.
|
| SuSE 11
| Perl (happy with perl)i see far too many people trying to exploit php
| vunrebilities in my apache log files!
| Apache2
| Bash
| html
|
| Running perl cgi scripts from a basic auth protected directory is not a
| problem. Running perl cgi scripts isn’t a problem either.
|
| What i’m wanting to do is create a Webform that will allow me to create
| new users on the system and then create additional files and directories
| at the same time then create a vhost entry for apache2 and restart
| apache2.
|
| I reckon i can do most of these but how can i create a new user on the
| system from a webform? I guess i need to pull in the use of a bash
| script as root, but how.
|
| Help appreciated.
|
|
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> Looking for direction, ideas suggestions, help etc.
>
> SuSE 11
> Perl (happy with perl)i see far too many people trying to exploit php
> vunrebilities in my apache log files!
> Apache2
> Bash
> html
>
> Running perl cgi scripts from a basic auth protected directory is not
> a problem. Running perl cgi scripts isn’t a problem either.
>
> What i’m wanting to do is create a Webform that will allow me to
> create new users on the system and then create additional files and
> directories at the same time then create a vhost entry for apache2
> and restart apache2.
>
> I reckon i can do most of these but how can i create a new user on the
> system from a webform? I guess i need to pull in the use of a bash
> script as root, but how.
>
> Help appreciated.
>
>
Hi
Why not use webmin, can do everything from there? http://www.webmin.com/
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Thank you those who have replied already, thank you.
Webadmin…not what i’m looking for, too complex and and does far more than i want it to do too.
I want to be able to log into a hidden basic auth protected directory from anywhere and enter details into a webform to create a new user on the system.
I am wanting a script that will allow me to create a new user account and automatically create custom user files and directories inc user ownership and permissions etc for ftp access for that new account and add entries into the vhost config file for apache2.
I can do all but create a new user account and i wish to explore how best to do this using a webform, perl and or a bash script.
The form will require New User info to include a UserName and a PassWord (PassWord twice) and a UserName and PassWord from me too to give root access on the system. Other options will include whether i am giving and allowing a cgi-bin, the use of perl, php and so on.
Is there a SuSE 11 command line to create a new user on the system?
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> Thank you those who have replied already, thank you.
>
> Webadmin…not what i’m looking for, too complex and and does far
> more than i want it to do too.
>
> I want to be able to log into a hidden basic auth protected directory
> from anywhere and enter details into a webform to create a new user on
> the system.
>
> I am wanting a script that will allow me to create a new user account
> and automatically create custom user files and directories inc user
> ownership and permissions etc for ftp access for that new account and
> add entries into the vhost config file for apache2.
>
> I can do all but create a new user account and i wish to explore how
> best to do this using a webform, perl and or a bash script.
>
> The form will require New User info to include a UserName and a
> PassWord (PassWord twice) and a UserName and PassWord from me too to
> give root access on the system. Other options will include whether i
> am giving and allowing a cgi-bin, the use of perl, php and so on.
>
> Is there a SuSE 11 command line to create a new user on the system?
>
>
Hi
useradd, groupadd, passwd, chown and chmod are the cli commands. I’m
sure there will be a cpan module for this as well.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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Click on a submit button and a script will do everything else for me…i hope!
This is simplistic as there will be two or more error checking processes built in and a number of emails sent and a summary printed to screen for printing etc and anything else i may think of along the way plus any sugestions made here.
I am beginning to think i’m in the wrong place for this one, i was hoping for help from someone with expertise with SuSE. Maybe i need help from some other forum specifically for perl and bash scripting on a system level.
>
> Thank you Malcolm, this is more like it i’ll look into these later and
> explore these commands to see what they can give me.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
Hi
You may also like to explore Usenet for additional perl and bash
scripting assistance. I would also look at the webmin source code for
ideas.
Have a look in /etc/ for how user profiles are added when you add a
user for there shells.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
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