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To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
From: Antonio Nati <A.Nati@cisco.it>
Subject: Re: adduser using a cgi-bin
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>I've tried a new code (copied from passwd for popper), that I run both as
cgi >and as interactive program:
>
>       setuid (0);
>        create a channel on a pty device,
>        fork,
>        child  --> exec (adduser....)
>        master --> printf (messages from child)

It's an error all mine.
In execl I didn't add the argument 0 (the name of the script/program), so
the adduser procedure was missing the first argument ("-batch").

Now I have different errors, but I'll open an another topic.

Tonino