Register unix user through browser
 

I am running a Dovecot mail server on a Redhat 9 machine with SquirrelMail as the webmail client. I would like to have users be able to sign themselves up for a webmail account. It seems as though they must be a Unix user in order to have an account currently. Is it possible to have a cgi or php script that can create a no login Unix account? I am aware that this is not generally a good idea, however this will be under an htaccess protected directory.

You could potentially do this, but the problem is that the script that creates the UNIX account needs to have root privilages. It's probably better to create a form that enables people to submit a request for an account, and keep the actual account creation scripts away from the Web server.

Nevermind, I have found a script that does this. It is called autouseradd. I just purchased it, now I just have to see if it works:) .

Great! The script doesn't even work. It is supposed to create users using IO and Expect. Does anyone know of anything else that creates users? Maybe a script that uses cron jobs?