Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 10:42:48 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@zeus.theinternet.com.au> 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: <199809020042.KAA21049@zeus.theinternet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <35EC7715.29886974@intercom.com> from "Jason J. Horton" at "Sep 1, 98 06:37:09 pm"
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+----[ Jason J. Horton ]--------------------------------------------- | 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 We do the same type of thing for user addition, we process users into a database, they are 'scrutinised' by humans first, and then once approved they are placed into another database. This section of the website is restricted to staff only. A cron job runs every 5 minutes (as root) and creates the pending users by calling adduser in batch mode. The databases are cross-checked with adduser log file to look for entries that have been created not using the web interface and to look for entries that exist in the database but don't have a corresponding account. If you have a networkable database you can place the database on a foreign machine behind a firewall and have various machines access it from the DMZ. -- Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| P:+61 7 3870 0066 | Andrew The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | F:+61 7 3870 4477 | Milton ACN: 082 081 472 | M:+61 416 022 411 |72 Col .Sig PO Box 837 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 |akm@theinternet.com.au|Specialist To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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