I read the O'Reilly book and misunderstood it... I consider myself duly enlightened and a happy bunny with a working script... Thanks, much appreciated.. Simon On Monday 10 Jun 2002 7:54 pm, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

Simon <simon@sparksy.org.uk> writes:

...

I've been asked to do a cgi in perl that will create and delete user accounts..

So I've setuid a script, but can't get it to add users using a system call..

system("/usr/sbin/useradd", "-g 45 -s /bin/false -d /home/popusers/users/goresmail/<userid here>");

That's not how you use system() in Perl.

system("useradd", "-g", "45", ...); or system("useradd -g 45 ...");

"man perlfunc" has the details.