Calling a bash script from index.html to crearte unix / linux user accounts

**randeep** · 8th January 2012, 08:27 AM

Hi,

I have a simple page with a text box and a submit button. When i press the button I want to run a small bash script with the value in the text box as input and show the result in web page.

These are the scripts I use. Happy to get suggested if you have simple ones.

root@cpaneltest [/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test]# cat index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>

<div align="center" style="margin-top:275px;">
<form action="ip.php" >
IP Address: <input type="text" name="ip" />
<input type="Submit" value="Ping"/>
</form>
</div>

</body>
</html>
root@cpaneltest [/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test]#

root@cpaneltest [/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test]# cat ip.php
<?php
$ip = $_GET['ip'];
#$cmd = .adduser .. $u;
$cmd = .echo $ip;
$out = system($cmd);
?>
root@cpaneltest [/usr/local/apache/htdocs/test]#

**cfajohnson** · 23rd January 2012, 01:03 AM

Take a look at Chris Johnson's Test Bed

**nixcraft** · 23rd January 2012, 01:29 AM

The web server run as apache or www-data or www user. The addusre command need to be run as root user. The only solution is to run adduser using sudo without password which is a huge security risk.

Thread: Calling a bash script from index.html to crearte unix / linux user accounts

Thread Tools

Display

Calling a bash script from index.html to crearte unix / linux user accounts

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

Similar Threads

Bash shell script get user input and write variable in to a file

Bash script access user defined shell variable at run time

Postfix user accounts

Difference betwwen : Locked User Account & Disabled User Accounts in Linux ?

Lighttpd URL Redirection domain.com/dir1/index.html to domain.com/dir1

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions