need help reagrding useradd command in fedora 10
 

hai to all
i have created a bash script called useradding to add user in my fedora system ,when i execute that script as ./useradding it creates a user in my system without prompting any thing because i have specified encryped password in that script ,it works fine and i can able to login with that user name and password clearly ,

And i am handling a mail server so i have designed a php page ,so when i call my bash script form my browser it is not creating any user in my system ,before that i have already given permission for apache to execute useradd command by editing visudo file

And i am getting error in apache error log as unable to lock password file" and also "sudo command need tty to run,"
my scripts are as follows

(sample script examples)
#!/bin/bash
#script name ----useradding in fedora
useradd test

<?php
$cmd=("sudo /var/www/html/useradding");
exec($cmd);
?>
and i have used passthru ,system,commands of php ..nothing is working
any ideas,suggestions will be helpful to me

and thanks in advance...

What are the permissions on the script?

You should use the [ CODE ] tags. They make code and configs stand out and infinitely easier to read.

As your second error says, sudo needs a terminal to run. I believe there is a sudoers option to lift this restriction (man is your friend). setuid may also help, though you have to be very careful using it.

That said, this is kind of a strange thing you're doing. What's the context of all this?

thanks for your ideas

why i am doing is that i have to make a php page so that the users can able to create login's in my mail server

Did any suggestion work? What was the issue?

asifbasha,

A shell script, invoked by PHP code running in the web server runs as same user as that of the web server where under normal conditions no user is allowed to change UID to root.

To have your work done you may need a small C program. There is an example in C but I don't know if it will work for you, try this. For comparison see this also.

Hope it helps.

You'll need to give apache (or whatever user it runs as eg nobody, www) rights in the sudoers file.