From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 26 7:22:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.amigo.net (smtp1.amigo.net [209.94.64.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8349437B405 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 07:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randys@amigo.net) Received: from amigo.net (billing.amigo.net [209.94.67.250]) by smtp1.amigo.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5QENn450630 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:23:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from randys@amigo.net) Message-ID: <3B389AC5.1040102@amigo.net> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:23:01 -0600 From: Randy Smith Organization: Amigo.Net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386; en-US; rv:0.9.1+) Gecko/20010525 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Web Interface for adduser References: <200106251809.AA724893880@stmail.pace.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jonathan Slivko wrote: > 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 have done a similar thing to get my billing server to automatically create accounts on my mail server. I works reasonably well and my clients understand when I tell that it will be a few minutes before the system updates. Let me know privatly, if you want a copy of the script. Randy > > _____________________________________________ > 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 > -- Randy Smith Amigo.Net Systems Administrator 1-719-589-6100 x 4185 http://www.amigo.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message