Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-25 Thread STeve Andre'
On Thursday 25 January 2007 08:18, Passeur wrote: > Thanks for your feedbacks guys. > Of course the idea is not to introduce silly and easy security holes in > OpenBSD. > So we will go for the most secure platform possible. > As for SSH comments, of course I agree, but this interface is a framework

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-25 Thread Gregory Edigarov
chefren wrote: On 1/25/07 1:34 AM, Passeur wrote: We are in the process of developing a PHP framework with a web frontend to manage the OpenBSD settings through a web browser. It should be handy, I presume =all= configs, logins, groups, passwords and for example the settings for Apache and P

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-25 Thread Darren Spruell
On 1/25/07, Passeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for your feedbacks guys. Of course the idea is not to introduce silly and easy security holes in OpenBSD. So we will go for the most secure platform possible. These foofy web management interfaces seldom result in that. As for SSH comments

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-25 Thread Passeur
nBSD. >>> He advised me rather using PHP to use CGI/PERL. >>> >>> What is your opinion ? >> >> "Let's punch through all carefully designed security layers of OpenBSD >> with a 'program' based on the most insecure language of the p

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-25 Thread Gaby Vanhegan
On 25 Jan 2007, at 03:52, Darren Spruell wrote: > On 1/24/07, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 1/25/07 1:34 AM, Passeur wrote: >> > We are in the process of developing a PHP framework with a web >> frontend to >> > manage the OpenBSD settings through a web browser. >> > A friend advised

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-24 Thread David Bryan
I really like the concept- but something you must remember when developing any web app- Input Validation. Ideally you would have a mysql database or file that just enables or disables something ( literally a 1 or a 0 or true/false, then a secondary program that creates config files from that with

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-24 Thread Darren Spruell
On 1/24/07, chefren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/25/07 1:34 AM, Passeur wrote: > We are in the process of developing a PHP framework with a web frontend to > manage the OpenBSD settings through a web browser. > A friend advised me not to do that because of all the security holes I will > intro

Re: A PHP management interface for OpenBSD ?

2007-01-24 Thread chefren
On 1/25/07 1:34 AM, Passeur wrote: We are in the process of developing a PHP framework with a web frontend to manage the OpenBSD settings through a web browser. It should be handy, I presume =all= configs, logins, groups, passwords and for example the settings for Apache and PHP itself include