Doug, 

I am speechless, but will attempt to overcome that. Thank you for doing 
this. Merry Christmas. I will open this bad boy up and see if I can make 
heads or tails. Thank you again. Very nice of you indeed. 

Mike

On Tuesday, December 24, 2013 7:55:37 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I would like to create a web app / interface to manipulate and maintain my 
> server's dhcpd.conf file. 
> *Background in Short:*
> I was asked a few years back to build a wifi network for approximately 500 
> users with unlimited devices. With no money (barely any money). Done. 
> The only requirement/restriction is we use MAC address filtering. So I 
> have a server, serving dhcp leases. I have to manually input each MAC 
> address with a hostname and group. This is a terrible pain. Especially for 
> the amount of users I have with unlimited devices. Christmas time is 
> horrible because they all come in wanting new devices registered. 
> I do have, at least, a web form through google which updates an excel 
> sheet in google docs, which I then access, copy the MAC address, then using 
> my server gui, add the new MAC to the dhcpd.conf file and restart the 
> server. 
> *What I've done & What my hope is:*
> I have started the Django tutorial. I have dabbled with python. I am an 
> enthusiast in training. I have very little to no experience. I can learn. 
> Fast. I am just running into branches of "things to learn" and it's 
> starting to be a little overwhelming. 
> I hope to do the lion's share of creating a web app that will do the 
> following:
>
> 1. Register a user using sqlite3 database I have already created for all 
> users. 
> 2. Authenticate a user
> 3. Provide a display of registered devices for user to either delete or 
> not delete
> 4. Provide a form to register a new device(s)
> 5. submit request, append to dhcpd.conf & restart dhcp server 
>
> There is minutia I am not including in this *cry for help*. 
>
> This app would help me gain some distance from this monumental task. 
>
> Am I in the right place? Is there some special soul out there who wants to 
> help a fella out? 
>
> Many thanks to all who have read this.
>
> Mike Roberts
>

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