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( 06.06.01 22:48 -0400 ) Chris Devers:
Plan for growth. You'll be glad you did, someday.
or, it will just go on that huge pile of great code that never got
deployed.
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On 1 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me clarify a bit more what I need to do. We want to use $USER
to verify a valid user before running the program, so this is very
unlikely go on the web or have a web interface.
You can tie web-based authentication to an external user database
From: Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:22:25 -0400
On 1 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let me clarify a bit more what I need to do. We want to use $USER
to verify a valid user before running the program, so this is very
unlikely go on the web or
On 2 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The key is to let somebody else do as much of the authentication
implementation as possible, as it's tricky and time-consuming to get
right.
The Unix login process can be subverted by sudo (not to mention that
$USER can be set to anything, as
From: Ted Zlatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 14:41:48 -0400
On 2 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Unix login process can be subverted by sudo (not to mention that
$USER can be set to anything, as others pointed out). You should
always request a
I'm writing a command-line program to manage student grading for a
course, which will run on the school's Unix boxes (it can't be put on the
web for security reasons), and was debating what the best choice is to
handle the user interface. Has anyone got some experience with Curses.PM
and/or
CLI, or terminal?
Curses is a terminal interface, in which case you want Curses::UI
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On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 15:29, Janet Marie Jackson wrote:
I'm writing a command-line program to manage student grading for a
course, which will run on the school's Unix boxes (it can't be put on the
web for security reasons), and was debating what the best choice is to
handle the user
Janet Marie Jackson wrote:
I'm writing a command-line program to manage student grading for a
course, which will run on the school's Unix boxes (it can't be put on the
web for security reasons), and was debating what the best choice is to
handle the user interface. Has anyone got some
On 1 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm writing a command-line program to manage student grading for a
course, which will run on the school's Unix boxes (it can't be put on the
web for security reasons), and was debating what the best choice is to
handle the user interface. Has anyone
Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I
need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running
the program, so this is very unlikely go on the web or have a web
interface. If a teaching assistant's personal account is compromised,
we're really in
Why not use a console-based spreadsheet?
It sounds like a lot of this could be done with shell scripts
(grep for users to show, etc.)
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I am going to second the suggestion to write an upload feature from a
spreadsheet. You're not going to invent a better UI, and it is going
to take you a lot more work. Plus there is no security issue here -
anyone can do anything they want with the spreadsheet but they can
only enter it into
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:22:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: Janet Marie Jackson
Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Perl Curses clarification
Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I
need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running
the program, so
From: Janet Marie Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:22:27 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks to those who have answered. Let me clarify a bit more what I
need to do. We want to use $USER to verify a valid user before running
the program, so this is very unlikely go on the
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Bob Rogers wrote:
Please note that this does not preclude using an SQL database. [...]
Of if you're hell-bent on CSV, at least use DBD::CSV and write your
application as if there's a real database engine on the other side.
That way, when you come around and realize that a
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