[cobalt-users] How can I add a user from a public form

[Clive Harper <CHarper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once of our customer wants to provide a form on his website to allow users
to signup for e-mail addresses at their domain e.g. userx@xxxxxxxxxx

They do not want to use the siteadmin GUI interface for this as they want
the user to fill in a web form and submit the details to a CGI script which
adds the user automatically.

I have produced a script (mail me if you want to see it) which takes the
input from a form and passes the details to the site_user_add function in
Cobalt::User but I can only get the script to run successfully if I put it
in the /cgi-bin/.cobalt/ folder.

The problem is that this is a protected folder and therefore needs logon
details to access the CGI script, I can pass the logon details in the form's
post method e.g. http://user:pass@xxxxxxxxx/cgi-bin/.cobalt/useradd.cgi but
this means that the username and password are clearly visible in the address
bar of the browser.

Does anyone have a way of allowing public users to create their own account
on a RAQ without the site admin having to create it manually in the GUI?

Any responses appreciated.

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