Hi
Im writing a perl CMS, whose two main requirements are that it must be installed, configured and run by people with no technical skills, and that they have a simple way to add new modules for new features. I was hoping to have an web-based install/update system similar to debians apt-get.
Most of these people have no command line access, no technical support, and no technical skills.
Ive got a nice cgi based installer, but this will only be secure if the web-server is running suexec. So I shall also have to write...
- a command line installer (similar to how kwiki does it)
- a scary install script to guide the user to, upack files locally, ftp upload these files, ftp chmod these files with these magic numbers...
- maybe a tk app that, does all of the above for you.
My Question, for websites not running suexec, are there any better ways a complete non-techie could do a secure install?
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