Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:00:23 -0700 (PDT) From: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> To: jason@intercom.com (Jason J. Horton) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, isp-tech@isp-tech.com Subject: Re: webbased email/adding new users Message-ID: <199809020000.RAA29250@ohio.river.org> In-Reply-To: <35EC7715.29886974@intercom.com> from "Jason J. Horton" at "Sep 1, 98 06:37:09 pm"
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> A client wants to do a Hotmail type service(doesn't > everyone?) and I am wondering how to add new users via > forms, like hotmail does, with the webserver running > as a non-privilidged user and without opening a whole > bunch of security problems for the system. Any ideas? > Please email me or the list I have about a 400 line perl script that use CGI.pm to put up a form and get all the necessary fields filled in and do some data checking. It then uses sendmail to mail to a special account. Every line is prefixed with XXX to avoid any special escape tricks. The other account has a procmail filter running that extracts the data. We then have someone check the account, but if you're not doing a $$$ deal then you could have that account hand it off to a suid-perl script that would install the account. later, david -- David Hawkins -- dhawk@river.org http://www.river.org/~dhawk "How I wait for my good is more important than what I wait for. Life is not living in a 'waiting room', but rather waiting in a 'living room'." -- Dr. Dorothy Kobak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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