I have two basic recommendations:
1. First, let me recommend investigating current solutions to these
problems such as Webmin (for administration); no point reinventing the
wheel.
2. I would recommend that if possible, you use a Samba server for the
filesharing, and let it worry about the security permissions. Is there some
reason this wouldn't work?
> - Do the scripts need root privileges to do all this, or is this
> feasable running as Apache CGI script?
If they need root privs, you're doing it the wrong way. You may also
want to look up sudo.
> - And my last questions: are there any CPAN modules or something
> alike to help me realize such an administration tool - or - is there
> any freely available software capable of such things (should be
> Perl though).
I think Webmin is perl (and no, I don't use webmin; don't need a web
admin if :) ).
Tim Nelson
Systems Administrator
Sunet Internet
Tel: +61 3 5241 1155
Fax: +61 3 5241 6187
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