script wrapper for smbpasswd?

What I want to achieve is:

an administrative user, properly authenticated elsewhere can from a php generated form, submit a request to add users and passwords, or change passwords, from an apache2 web server.

The man pages on smbpasswd are plain wrong: it no longer uses a password file - instead it is all munged up in a passwd.tdb format, so it seems that executing smbpasswd is the best approach: However when executed by (essentially) the web server, - user www-data - it won't have sufficient permissions to utilize smbpasswd..

A script wrapper executed from the php with setuid set may be an approach..

Anyone done this sort of stuff?

Solutions NOT using apache are not relevant: The whole idea is to build an integrated intranet machine in which EVERyTHING (apart from really heavy stuff) is managed via n SQL database with php support and exported via a web interface.
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