Hello rj On 4 Jul 2002 at 18:55, rj wrote:
> What is the best way to delegate some root privileges for a user > which could only create e-mail accounts and make newaliases? I have written a bunch of scripts in Python, that use the "super" utility to give effective root access to certain users for pre- defined tasks. It uses the "python-newt" user interface to give a full screen text mode interface like the debconf's "dialog" one. The real work is done by adduser, userdel etc. It also has a module for adding and removing entries from the /etc/aliases file. As with most sys-admin scripts, it is a bit beta, but if somebody is interested I could make it available. Regards Ian PS: I have had in the back of my mind a web server which would authenticate the user, then spawn a child process under that users ID. All further connects belonging to the authenticated session should be piped through to the child for processing. The child could then run a bunch of webmin type scripts to do things that could otherwise be done from the command line with user permissions. The child process should last as long as the session. When the sessions is closed or times out the server should kill the child and clean up. This would prevent a new interpreter from getting started for every click - as is the case with a conventional cgi script and also prevent the parent server from getting crashed by poorly written client scripts. Has anybody seen something like this. Maybe something that supports Python scripts? (I could not find one, so I used the newt interface instead ...) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Forbes ZSD http://www.zsd.co.za Office: +27 21 683-1388 Fax: +27 21 674-1106 Snail Mail: P.O. Box 46827, Glosderry, 7702, South Africa --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
