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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:20:24 -0500
From: ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
To: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu>
Cc: freymann@eagle.ca, barbish@a1poweruser.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to adduser from script?
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:25:52 -0500 (EST)
"Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu> wrote:

> I don't know if this is a good idea, but I have a web based login
> system.  It creates the users in a MySQL database.  This is all fine and
> good, but I want to also add them as system users in master.passwd  . 
> It is my understanding that I need to do some kind of setuid script like
> the one below.  Anyone how or where to look.

 I write out the info to a file, safely tucked away some where, and
schedule a cron job (as root) to run every so often and pick up the
waiting data and create the user. How often the cron job runs is up to
you. And security of the file should be handled carefully as well.

gf

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