Posted by Shelly on 01/02/06 04:54

I submitted this to comp.mail.sendmail, but maybe someone here can help me
as well.

OK, this has most likely been asked and answered several times, but I am
still confused after searching. Here is the background and situation:

Background:
I know nothing about sendmail. It is being set up on the system by someone
else on a Red Hat Linux system.
I know Unix, but it has been a while and I am not an expert on that OS.
I have programmed for a long time, but am relatively new to web programming.

The Task:
From a web page take the user's information and, among other things,
-- create a sendmail account
but
-- not have shell access. Only have access to the mail.

Path:
I will be using php and so the Apache account will have sufficient
privilages to run a shell script to create the account.

Questions:
-- Where can I find a script to do this?
-- What do I have to do to deny access to everything except the email?

Any help for this newbie would be greatly appreciated.

Shelly

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