in reply to CGI and root permissions

This won't help you today, but O'Reilly is publishing Perl for System Administration in July of 2000. According to the O'Reilly site one of the chapters is going to be on user adminstration.

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RE: Re: CGI and root permissions
by Punto (Scribe) on May 30, 2000 at 09:40 UTC
    This will probably not help either, but Cobalt's RaQ systems have a web interfase that allow to create/modify users, ifconfig, httpd.conf, and reboot the box. They use perl (for the GUI at least).

    I think they run a different httpd, on port 81, maybe with a different configuration.