This is extremely dangerous.(you *are* talking about a shell account?)

I have this application that lets multiple users log in and see things, upload things, create sub users, and allow them or not allow them to see stuff.

I originally intended to tie in real tight with the os (linux), but.. you'd have to run as root , or something would have to- to create and manage accounts. I thought that was asking for trouble.

Think about it. Root access to a machine's accounts/permissions stuff.. via http.

At least if you maybe forced ssl?

Another thing I considered to solve this problem, was to maybe enable the web interface (via ssl, passwords, catchas .. etc) to 'queue' the creation of a user.. to queue the setting of permissions.

Afterwards, an admin could look over the requests via the web.. and allow them or not.

In reply to Re: user profile/account management modules? by leocharre
in thread user profile/account management modules? by JupiterCrash

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