Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-02 Thread Marcin Soltysiak
From: Iavor Raytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] I posted here a couple of days ago a note about the php vpopmail extension and I got in touch with Rick Widmer who has done some progress on it. As I wrote then - we want to write high level php/Smarty GUI for vpopmail management module. The main

Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-02 Thread Alejandro Borges
Iavor Raytchev wrote: snip interesting request about vpopmail admin server Ok... here is what i do...i take a Python based soap server with https. I use python's facilities to execute all the vpopmail/bin commands from a shell. How insecure is it? Well, if someone broks your webserver, and

Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Iavor Raytchev wrote: In our company we had a discussion on the issue and the prevailing opinion is that we should not waste time with the extension, but write a daemon. This weekend we will experiment with that. Today, searching more in depth on the issue - I found some

Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-01 Thread Anders Brander
Hi, On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 03:46, Iavor Raytchev wrote: The main stumbling block seems the need to run Apache as vpopmail user. I have not investigated deep enough, but this seems to be one of the main reasons why the extension is somehow dead. Just from the top of my head, wouldn't Apache 2

Re: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-01 Thread Paul Oehler
Just from the top of my head, wouldn't Apache 2 solve this? Doesn't it allow for different UID/GID for different virtual hosts? Indeed, this was the holy grail of Apache 2.0 for shared web hosts. Alas 2.0 came, and as of yet has not delivered. Here's the relevant info:

RE: [vchkpw] php extension or daemon

2004-04-01 Thread Patrick Paysant
Iavor Raytchev a ecrit In our company we had a discussion on the issue and the prevailing opinion is that we should not waste time with the extension, but write a daemon. Sounds good :) How do you plan to developp the daemon ? Which language ? Which protocol ? -- Patrick