Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Plugin Request

[Gabe C. <ga...@fu...>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

squ...@li... said:

> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 17:52, David Barnes wrote:
> > I have an Idea for a new plugin: Allow users to Sign-up at the login
> > screen. The linux command is "adduser" and you should use it somehow with
> > PHP.
> 
> The problem is, of course, that you would need to run your webserver as
> root in order to do that. 
> 
> I hope I don't have to explain why running apache as user root is a
> horribly bad idea. :)
> 
> -- 
>  0>  Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
> / )  Duke Physics Systems Admin, RHCE
>  ~   www.duke.edu/~icon/pubkey.asc
> 

Not necessarily. Use 'sudo' and if necessary, write a script to handle
user and account creation.



 ---------------------------------------------------------- 
| Gabe Chan                     sub...@fu... |
 ---------------------------------------------------------- 
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

iD8DBQE9SGj8sjzm3Bsr80IRAo6rAJ90AYZzZb4TjPtMqQlOEwGpUbX0wACcC9vF
w3QrvcJSlTjkft5ALG+3448=
=30hL
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----