Hi

First notice that my solution need a higher development effort than some other listed here. I would recommend to create the web app on an other server for security reasons. You should have a look at the SSL modules on CPAN to pass the UNIX command to the target server.

I would authenticate the user to the web app with CGI::session and use an PK system to authenticate the web-app to the target server. Eventually jail the account you are using on the target server. Keep the validity time of the cookies of CGI::session short to avoid session theft as far as possible.

Once the user is authenticated I would prepare the UNIX command on the web-app server and pass it to the UNIX server with SSH. If you build a good system (i.e. PERL best practice!) you will be able to reuse the web-app for several UNIX servers.

PS: Never assume a user will log out. Keep the validity of the session short. I use for example 10 minutes for a login screen.

K

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In reply to Re^3: Cross-platform GUI for UNIX based scripts by Zzenmonk
in thread Cross-platform GUI for UNIX based scripts by Anonymous Monk

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