Don't think this got through first time - if it did, then appologies ....
Do I need to create a service (similar to SWAT) to allow a user to run the html script and access the cgi file? What address do I need to include in the html script so that the cgi script can be linked to?
How much do you know about CGI scripts ? Assuming that you haven't come across these before (forgive me if this assumption is incorrect), but you will need a web server to 'serve them up' (apache is the usual choice for Linux). Basically, the HTML file will do in the documents area of the web server and the CGI script will go in the 'scripts area'. These are 'htdocs' (sometimes 'html') and cgi-bin respectively for apache (often installed in /home/httpd). The client connects to the HTML and CGI scripts via a web browser using something like : http://your.machine/passwd.html Which in turn will probably invoke the script, which could also be called directly at : http://your.machine/cgi-bin/passwd.cgi There may well be a '