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Re: [cobalt-users] Adding/Modifying/Deleting Users from shell or script
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Adding/Modifying/Deleting Users from shell or script
- From: "Ray Symons" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue Oct 22 12:23:00 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> cron job, how would I get input from cgi as admin and run the add/del/mod
> scripts as root? And if I can do this is this one HUGE security hole just
> waiting to dump all my work? Thanks again
Couldn't you maybe pipe an email with all the valid information to a script
running as root that would parse the email and do what you need it to do? How
to do this is beyond me, but I've discussed it with people already and know it
should be possible for you.
rks