Hi all, I am wanting some advise/input on setting up some sort of intranet site to allow system operators to manage the servers, mostly UNIX servers and some Windows. I am constrained by not being able to install new modules or a database, for example, MySQL. The web server will be Apache. Given the choice between PHP and CGI-BIN. I've chosen CGI-BIN, is that a "wise" choice ... :-)
For access, instead of a MySQL database, the only alternative that I can think of is reading the login information from a CSV delimited file for instance since I am not allowed to edit the htaccess and htpasswd files so am looking to somehow to be able to mask at least the password to keep it "secret" I need some guidance if someone know of any existing set of CGI-BIN scripts that I can just plug it and used for this purpose. In its simplest form for a start, am looking at being able to present a page for login, once the user manages to login then, then I want to be able to allow it to run some basic UNIX commands, for example, df, top, rm old files from /tmp via a UNIX script etc. For some logins, they will not be allowed to run commands, but merely be presented with some server "health" information, i.e. for example output from a sar or vmstat or df or top report. Any guidance on where or how to start will be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
