On Mar 30, 9:41 pm, "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hell...@dcuktec.org> wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote:
> > The essence of your program is that you only want information, that is > great! Since that makes it all a bit simpler. > > How about writing a cronjob that outputs the require information into a > file and then write a separate program that reads the output and > displays it on the web site when requested? I dont 'only want information.' I want to do everything that root can do through a web interface > I don't think this is necessary a python problem but a generic, SUID > scripts considered dangerous, problem. Yeah I know and I'm prepared for the consequences -- think of it as running with the hardware ethernet interfaces down-ed. Seems to contradict the web thing above so let me explain: Machine runs vista -> Vista runs VMware -> VMware hosts ubuntu Ubuntu behaves like a disk rack. Through the web client running on Vista, I want to view and *Control* the ubuntu disk rack (somewhat like manipulating the cups printer via localhost://631) The context is that we want to teach a course on LVM, RAID, SCSI actual disks etc and during that we would like a nice summarised picture in front of the class rather than arcane playing-around-ing with fdisk, pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, mdadm etc command lines. I think I know what I am going to try (Got it from an old python list posting here http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2000-July/044690.html which explains how perl does it) Copy /usr/bin/python to ~/bin/python-su make it suid run the scripts under python-su Any major holes (apart from the security ones :-) ) in my plan?? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
