[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, and thanks for your time > > I was wondering if perl can modify from a web page (Form) a > .vacation message for user or modify ./forward files
If the file permissions allow it, yes. But that's probably a bad idea. Generally the web server, and thus Perl CGI scripts or mod_perl code, would be running as "nobody" or "www-data" or some other special user. This user should not have very good access to modify files, for security reasions - anyone with an account could then write a CGI script that would then be able to modify other people's files - bad! If your web server is running as the user who owns the .vacation or .forward file in question, then it would not be a problem, of course. I think there may be ways to configure web servers so that CGI scripts are run as the user who owns them, which might make this possible. But that's not a Perl issue, it's a web server config issue. > Or to just create autoresponders > my raq 3 has vacation messaging, but it's not that useful > unix systems have had autoresponders for years > I thought maybe perl could create autoresponder accounts > so if I create the account "test" for username 'jblow' > I can modify a specific file to tell it > "Add this alies to the domain and let THAT be an autoresponder with x message" > > Or is this beyond perl's capabilities? It's odd how in 2001, a raq 3 only has > vacation message but I can only use it for one email per domain. Bleh I don't know what a raq 3 is, so I can't comment on that. Again, this isn't really a Perl problem, so much as a problem with permissions and configurations. Either your mail server (sendmail, exim, qmail, or whatever) would need to have a mechanism where non-privileged users can update mail aliases, or there would need to be a mechanism like "sudo" which enables normally-non-privileged users to do privileged things like setting up mail aliases. --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
