Another Script question

[blooddrunk]

In my C program I need to add the 'useradd' function. But ,as you all know, adding a user in Linux requires root privileges. Is there a way through a script or system()function to make that command run on every computer without prompting for root's password. 10x in advance

[unutbu]

Run your program as root.

[imdano]

Yeah, it'd sort of defeat the purpose of making adding a user require root privileges if you could get around it with a script or function call.

[LaRoza]

Is there a way through a script or system()function to make that command run on every computer without prompting for root's password.

What? Did I read that correctly?

[pmasiar]

Is there a way through a script or system()function to make that command run on every computer without prompting for root's password.

No, and if you think for about 5 secs, you will realize why :-)

[LaRoza]

No, and if you think for about 5 secs, you will realize why :-)

Technically, before they fixed that sudo bug (which could be used to bypass the prompt on a local machine) you could, but that was a bad bug and not a feature. It doesn't exist anymore.

[blooddrunk]

Technically, before they fixed that sudo bug (which could be used to bypass the prompt on a local machine) you could, but that was a bad bug and not a feature. It doesn't exist anymore.

I thought so. Thanks to all of you, anyway

[rnodal]

Or you can exploit some system function that would allow you to execute your own code but you don't want to do that because it is not nice. :)