From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 27 19:16:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25508 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25396 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:16:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA29140; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:16:16 -0800 (PST) To: "Joe Shevland" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Jan 1998 11:12:56 +1100." <199801280014.LAA15070@oznet11.ozemail.com.au> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:16:16 -0800 Message-ID: <29136.885957376@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > What are peoples' thoughts on a Java administration tool for FreeBSD? One I feel the same way about this as I do about all the proposals I've seen for web-based administration and installation tools in general: Doing this is not an easy nut to crack, and security concerns are not entirely trivial, but if you think you can do it then by all means GO FOR IT! Unfortunately, it would also seem that most people are only good for suggesting that a Java or plain-HTML based admin tool would be a good thing and not so much good for actually coding up the proof-of-concept that'd be required to make it anything more than a simple and often-made suggestion. ;-) Jordan