Greets good Monks!
In the spirit of TMT1W2DI - my question could be answered in more than one way.

1. Is there a module available (I have searched fruitlessly) that would allow me to easily let a user set/unset, and change their .vacation.msg file via a cgi form?

2. I have implemented SSL on Apache (OpenBSD) - and have the directory that the cgi will run out of set to force authentication - and it works :) . I think I could take the remote_user variable and substitute it in perl code to modify the vacation and forward files in the user's home dir. But I believe I would still have to run 'vacation -i' as the user. I'm not sure how to go about this (would setuid be the best/only way? or how might I perhaps su - username to do it?)

Also - it would seem unwieldy as user population grows to have to maintain the htaccess file (I may have to move to an OpenLDAP solution - but have no experience implementing such).

3. Can anyone point me to resources, and/or example code to do this sort of user file manipulation?

4. charity solution Has anyone done this whom is willing to share their hard work with a humble weenie monk?

Thank you.

NeoMonk Weenie

In reply to help...cgi-bin form - strategy needed to set user's out of office reply via the vacation prog. by weenie

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