I've worked as a system administrator for a while and I
started working with linux about a year or so ago. One
problem I had with the system was there was no way to let
administrators use a gui to let novices have access to the
command line programs to the extent I want them to. (yes,
I am away that there are numerous guis for most command
line programs but no scripts that I've come across). To
rectify this, I wrote a simple (somewhat ugly) program
which allows an administrator to configure it to be a gui
to most command line programs. I called it tkmult. It is a
combination of perl and tk. If you are interested, it is
available from CPAN.