Re: Script run as a Cron Job

Well, you can always make myperlscript suid, or use a setuid wrapper (in fact, you are now using cron to give you this wrapper).

Otherwise, you could log the new usernames/passwords in a file or database and create a new program that is called from cron. The task of this program is to read the entries, call myperlscript and delete the entries from the file or database. If you use a file, make sure you properly flock it when modifying it.

Abigail

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Re: Script run as a Cron Job by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 26, 2002 at 09:18 UTC
Uhm, if you have permission to run the adduser command, you really should know all of this. Look up the 'chmod' command. Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: Script run as a Cron Job by bobrobclob (Initiate) on Aug 23, 2002 at 15:08 UTC
how would i go about suid'ing the script? i'm a bit new to all of this and most of what you just said went 'whooosh - straight over my head!'	[reply]