Creating a qmail account without user interaction

[sheldonlg@gmail.com]

I don't think my last attempt posted so here it is again.

This is a bit off-topic, but it does relate to php. This is the most
active related group that I can find, so even if it is off-topic I hope
you can help. (I have posted to alt.comp.mail.q mail, but that doesn't
have much participation).

Goal:
I want the create an account in qmail (which is written in php). What
I want to do is gather all the information from the user from a php
form that I write. On submit, and verification there will be another
page that the user does not see to create the email account. I want to
automatically create that account for him totally in the background and
then simply send him to a success page. The problem is the blind
creation of the qmail account.

I have tracked down some things. The vpopmail database is in mysql and
it holds his information related to the email account.
-- Side questions before I forget: The unencrypted password is

there as well as an encrypted form.
-- Is the unencrypted one necessary for qmail?
-- How is it encrypted? It is not md5. I compared the
result to an md5
encrypted value and they are different.

So far:
I have tracked down the html files. They are in
/var/www/cgi-bin/vqadmin/html. There appears to be a key one named
add_user.html. It has in it:
<form action="/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi" method="post" name="form1"
id="form1">

and then has:
<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" >
<tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-020</td>
<td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="eaddr" SIZE="30"
VALUE="$-UA"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-021</td>
<td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="cpass" SIZE="30"
VALUE="$-UO"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-039</td>
<td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="quota" SIZE="30"
VALUE="$-UQ"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-022</td>
<td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="fname" SIZE="30"
VALUE="$-UN"></td></tr>
<tr><td class="clsLabel ">#-040</td> </tr>
</table>


Assuming that this is the html file that actually gets sent to create
the account, what I want to do is from a different php file send to
/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi the information in a manner that it
thinks it is coming from this form. I want to do that without any user
interaction.
So:
-- Is this the right file for creating the user email
account?
-- How do I send the information that I have gather to the
cgi?
-- What are those #-020, #021 type things?


Thanks for any help.


Shelly (Sheldon)

[Michael Strasser]

Re: Creating a qmail account without user interaction

sheldonlg@gmail .com wrote:[color=blue]
> I don't think my last attempt posted so here it is again.
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but it does relate to php. This is the most
> active related group that I can find, so even if it is off-topic I hope
> you can help. (I have posted to alt.comp.mail.q mail, but that doesn't
> have much participation).
>
> Goal:
> I want the create an account in qmail (which is written in php). What
> I want to do is gather all the information from the user from a php
> form that I write. On submit, and verification there will be another
> page that the user does not see to create the email account. I want to
> automatically create that account for him totally in the background and
> then simply send him to a success page. The problem is the blind
> creation of the qmail account.
>
> I have tracked down some things. The vpopmail database is in mysql and
> it holds his information related to the email account.
> -- Side questions before I forget: The unencrypted password is
>
> there as well as an encrypted form.
> -- Is the unencrypted one necessary for qmail?
> -- How is it encrypted? It is not md5. I compared the
> result to an md5
> encrypted value and they are different.
>
> So far:
> I have tracked down the html files. They are in
> /var/www/cgi-bin/vqadmin/html. There appears to be a key one named
> add_user.html. It has in it:
> <form action="/cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi" method="post" name="form1"
> id="form1">
>
> and then has:
> <table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" >
> <tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-020</td>
> <td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="eaddr" SIZE="30"
> VALUE="$-UA"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-021</td>
> <td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="cpass" SIZE="30"
> VALUE="$-UO"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-039</td>
> <td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="quota" SIZE="30"
> VALUE="$-UQ"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="clsLabel R">#-022</td>
> <td><INPUT TYPE="TEXT" NAME="fname" SIZE="30"
> VALUE="$-UN"></td></tr>
> <tr><td class="clsLabel ">#-040</td> </tr>
> </table>
>
>
> Assuming that this is the html file that actually gets sent to create
> the account, what I want to do is from a different php file send to
> /cgi-bin/vqadmin/vqadmin.cgi the information in a manner that it
> thinks it is coming from this form. I want to do that without any user
> interaction.
> So:
> -- Is this the right file for creating the user email
> account?
> -- How do I send the information that I have gather to the
> cgi?
> -- What are those #-020, #021 type things?
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
> Shelly (Sheldon)
>[/color]



if youre working on unix, and you can configure qmail so that all
systemusers get an account, you could just run an adduser on the
root-shell (have to execute a system command) - otherwise you could
write a shellscript, that creates a qmail user for you, which means to
research, how a user is created physically in qmail..

just adding a systemuser was easy, but quite unsecure i guess,
everything else, will cost you a lot of time, good luck

[sheldonlg@gmail.com]

Re: Creating a qmail account without user interaction

I do not want a system account for them, just a qmail account.

[wolfwood2x]

sheldonlg@gmail .com wrote:


if youre working on unix, and you can configure qmail so that all
systemusers get an account, you could just run an adduser on the
root-shell (have to execute a system command) - otherwise you could
write a shellscript, that creates a qmail user for you, which means to
research, how a user is created physically in qmail..

just adding a systemuser was easy, but quite unsecure i guess,
everything else, will cost you a lot of time, good luck

Yes but how do you configure it to do this. I would like to add a system user and have it create the qmail account and the Mail directory in the users /home/username/ directory