Hi Everyone.... I'm trying to add users from a perl script, the script writes out lines of users to add to the system. Then a system call is made using :

system("/bin/bash","/tmp/Seabed_Users");

In the file Seabed_Users is the following...

adduser -g 45 -s /bin/false -p FtItmgt8G8RJY -d <directory>/username username

When the file is run from the command line as root it works fine, however from the setuid script it doesn't work I get

"adduser: unable to lock password file"

in the error log.. Any ideas

Thanks

Simon