Okay. I'm planning on setting up my now soon-to-be webserver to offer shell accounts under ssh. On logon it would greet the user, and tell him to logon as newuser or adduser or the like. Then it would throw him into creating a new user, but not with 'adduser' (since the user could easily just set the UID to 0, heh easiest root ever).

My friend told me to write a secure adduser program in C, only accepting the username and password as input from the user (the rest would be hardcoded into it).

But, C is not exactly my forte. I mean I could probably manage to do it, but it would take me a month or two to learn everything required. I've looked around, but to no avail.

Does anyone know of a way I could go about this easily? If not, any C programming guides that act around this (e.g. not general Learn C now! guides) will do fine.

Thanks.

I can write this simple program for you. Send me a mail if you're interested - slash@n-s.pl

Greetz

Hey KneeLess, I would be keen on checking out one of these free shell accounts. Please let me know when u have it up, I would be a keen contributor to your cause.

Email addy is: lqforums@nemesis.za.net

Thanks


Nemesis(ZA)

Sure nemesisza.

Might be a few days though, I have to order new hard drives.

may i ask, why would someone want a ssh shell account on somone else's computer?

File storage/manipulation, pretty much any reason you have one on yours. Easiest reason being, more flexibility than just FTP/HTTP access.

Cool

Well, also, it will be a learning system. There will be generic 'help' commands to help Linux newbies learn their way around a command console without getting a distro themselves.

Sadly, I will have to secure this box up like a mobo (sorry for the intended pun ) so some commands will be unavailable.

KneeLess if you ever do get your server running let me know. I am interested in optaining a account too.

Thanks
Figa