----- "Anand Vaidya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking of writing a C app running as root that will listen on a > > localhost socket for "commands" from the web UI and just execute it > (after > necessary checks, dropping down privileges etc)
I think the above is your best option, but please consider a scripting language like Python or better still, Groovy (as this will be in keeping with your Java environment). I recently implemented something similar for a project where users needed to get access to personal folders (not home dirs). The web front-end, communicated via XML-RPC to backend Python service. You can basically write a thin XML-RPC wrapper around the python "os" and "shutil" modules for file manipulations. Btw, every Java afficionado should check out Groovy and Grails. Cheers Stephan _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
