From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 28 06:26:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA11029 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:26:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from sys8.wfc.com (sys8.wfc.com [199.171.126.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA11024 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:26:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by sys8.wfc.com id AA18009; Wed, 28 Feb 96 08:27:36 -0600 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 08:27:36 -0600 Message-Id: <9602281427.AA18009@sys8.wfc.com> From: Mike Eggleston To: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: (message from Narvi on Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:21:17 +0200 (EET)) Subject: Re: xforms maintenance tools (was Re: Tcl/Tk sysinstall) Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Narvi" == Narvi writes: > On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Mike Eggleston wrote: >> >>>>> "Ollivier" == Ollivier Robert >> writes: >> >> > It seems that Jerry Kendall said: >> Now I am using the xforms >> library and the fdesign gui builder... It >> looks great and works >> very well. Have decided to write some other >> utilities >> >> > Erm, do you really must use xforms ? Some of the things I saw >> made > with it were awful, especially menus... (tried XFmail). The >> > interest of dialog is that it runs on the console _and_ under X11 >> > (well in an xterm but it is better than only X11). >> >> Why not have a html/cgi based manager. That would run under lynx, >> chimera, mosaic, etc., for local and remote administration. >> >> Mike >> > How about security? I don't feel I would like that kind of > management tool... > Sander Security can be handled by the server's internal authentication protocols. For httpd just set up authentication on the single person(s) that is allowed to modify the security configurations. To me, for a company (an ISP maybe?) that had a central mis group, but all their computers/servers were distributed around the country/world, a distributed configuration/management system would be ideal. I wouldn't want to run X through a 14.4 remote dialup from around the world (I have little enough hair as it is (8) Mike