Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 15:43:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Privilege to create users Message-ID: <XFMail.000815154310.mj@isy.liu.se>
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I want to let user register themselves and create a user account via a CGI-script and a web-browser. I don't fancy the idea of letting them act as root though. A cgi-script runs as nobody (doesn't it?), and I think it would be dangerous to 'elevate' nobodies to root. (or possibly having a rogue cgi-script running as root). Can I create users without being root and is there a smart way to do this via a CGI-script? In practice there will be a default login/password to get to the registering html-page. /micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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