From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jun 25 18:54: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bilver.wjv.com (dhcp-1-220.n01.orldfl01.us.ra.verio.net [157.238.210.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C0D837B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:53:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.wjv.com) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.wjv.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f5Q1rk512072; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:53:46 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bill) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 21:53:45 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Buckner Subject: Re: Web Interface for adduser Message-ID: <20010625215345.C11888@wjv.com> Reply-To: bv@wjv.com References: <200106251809.AA724893880@stmail.pace.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106251809.AA724893880@stmail.pace.edu>; from js43064n@pace.edu on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:09:06PM -0400 Organization: W.J.Vermillion / Orlando - Winter Park Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 06:09:06PM -0400, Jonathan Slivko thus sprach: > While sudo/webmin are good options, it's always a nice (and > personal touch) to have a shell script to do that for you. It > really shouldn't be that difficult, just create a webform hooked > up into a database which remotely adds users every 5 minutes or > so, and you should be set. While I have not done this personally, > I can further discuss what I believe to be a workable idea in > private if anyone is interested. --Jonathan I put up Webmin solely for one purpose, for the office staff to add new mail accounts to a system. The people I was working with were putting full-time connected Ethernet connections in college dorms, and there was a lot of grunt work. However they still screwed some things up. I guess it's ok if you want to do things Webmin's way, but I had so many things set up differntly I disable EVERYTHING execpt adduser for the others, and I kept up my other methods for handling things. I did NOT care for the way it handled DNS. I highly commented all my files so you could take the files and map the network and a tar of the namedb directory was a bit over 1MB, so I may have been the exception. Just go carefully with it, and make sure it is doing thing the way you want them done. > > _____________________________________________ > Jonathan M. Slivko > Technical Support, Black Lotus Communications > http://www.blacklotus.net -- check us out! > _____________________________________________ > > > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Jeremy Buckner" > Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:23:55 -0700 > > >Hey all, quick question.. I have a new mail\web server > >running 4.3. Everything is cool there but I was wondering if > >there was some sort of html interface (or something else) > >that would allow my help desk techs to add and remove users > >ONLY without having to ssh into the box and su to root. I > >think about the latter and my mind spins with the potential > >security risks. Can anyone help? > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Sent via the Pace University Mail system at stmail.pace.edu > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message