Re: Creating an FTP account on the fly from PHP

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On Thu, March 22, 2007 5:20 pm, PHP Fusebox wrote:
> I built a CMS that lets a super user create and manage basic users
> (among lots of other things). I want basic users to get an FTP account
> that is automatically associated with their website user account, and
> managed from my add/edit user form. For example if I create a user
> named fred032@xxxxxxxxxxxx for him to login to my web app, I want my
> users to be able to use their same login name and password to access
> their web folder via FTP.
>
> I am running on LAMP on a CPanel server with ProFTP as the FTP server
> software, but I have no clue how to get PHP to be able to create,
> edit, or delete an FTP account. Can someone point me in the right
> direction?
>
> I can see the Form field names and URLs in the CPanel forms where this
> is set up, but is it safe to CURL these same URLs from my app? That
> seems like a big security risk.

It's as big a security risk as you make it, with how carefully you
write your script, and guard access to it.

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