如何检查用户是否在PHP中被禁用？

Question

I'm writing a PHP program to list user information.

I want to check if a user in /etc/passwd is disabled, so I have to check if a specific user has password like * or ! in /etc/shadow file.

Here is the problem, my Apache server has no access to shadow file, and I think reading shadow file is not safe in any case.

Can anyone help me with this problem?

Answer 1

/etc/passwd is Apache Folder and this folder is private...
You can't Access to it in most servers!
if user disabled on server ,he can't access to run php!

Answer 2

I/ Fetch the results with a root shell script run with cron.

for line in /etc/shadow store in /var/www/.../users.status.php
<?php die("do not open this file"); ?>
username:Active
username2:Inactive
...

II/ Make the php script that tests the created file with user submitted value...