I was refering to the equivilant of a <VirtualServer> section in Apache...to
just send Roxen the information for a new account, including IP address and
directories, and have it do it automatically without admin intervention. While
it CAN be done, it would be a pain in the ass.
Dave Bristel
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Hirling Endre wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:30:40 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Hirling Endre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Bristel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Robert Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Chris Rutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: ProFTPd being lame
>
> On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
>
> > <Off topic>
> > The only feature it lacks is the ability to do automated account setup from
> > another script. (Which is the ONLY thing that apache does better than
> > Roxen).
> > Maybe I'll tinker a bit and make a module for auto-creation of new web
> > accounts
> > from a shell script or something. Until then, for web hosting, Apache is the
> > better choice.
> > </Off topic>
>
> Hmmm... what about SQL user auth module, user filesystem, and creating
> web accounts into a mysql table? You can authenticate your web, ftp,
> pop3 servers from it, and with a few lines of RXML/Pike the user can
> change his password from a browser via https. I think this can be very
> well automated. If you want a virtualhost per user, even a siple
> shell/perl script can fill a server template (or Pike script if you'd
> better like creating users from a web interface :))
>
> (or I'm misunderstanding what you mean as 'web account'..)
>
> greetings
> endre
>
> --
> ..all in all it's just another rule in the firewall.
>
> /Ping Flood/
>
>
