At 19:05 28/05/98 +0000, John Mitchell wrote:
>The
>administration of the machine is much better handled through e.g., Java
>servlets running in e.g., Apache on each machine. You could then support
>either an HTML or a Java applet interface (or both).
Hmm, how would that work? Your servlet is typically running as an
unprivileged user, but it would need to be root to perform most sysadmin
tasks.
Either the servlet would need to act as a wrapper to some suid programs or
your web server needs to run with root privileges - neither seems
particularly desirable.
I guess you could have a dedicated web server running as root configured
quite tightly to accept only a limited set of requests. I'm not sure how
authentication would work though...
Dave W.
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David Wilkinson http://www.cascade.org.uk/
