Re^2: CGI and System Administration

Wrong wheel.

I need a form that users can fill out to generate/activate their own accounts. I don't want to deal with them. Laziness!

Also, we have some requirements that are somewhat non-standard. If there is an appropriate wheel already out there that can be customized enough for our needs (unusual home dir layout, strange addwebuser script, funny authentication mechanism etc...) then I'd love to hear about it.

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Re^3: CGI and System Administration by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 04, 2008 at 18:10 UTC
Those three things should be really easy to customize in, for example, cPanel. The unusual home directory layout should be easy with anything that uses the system's user management tools, too, since typically you can just mess with the skeleton home directory to your heart's content. Most web control panels can use PAM, LDAP, XML of some sort, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or some other source you can configure. PAM can be configured to use about anything itself. The addwebuser script might be an issue depending on just what you mena by "strange". Chances are there's a suitable way to import the existing users into whatever control panel you end up using.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI and System Administration by pileofrogs (Priest) on Apr 04, 2008 at 19:17 UTC
I am _such_ a lousy writer... I am not looking for a control panel for me. I'm happy as a clam editing /etc/passwd. I want a web form that users can log into to maintain their account. usermin is an example of something users use instead of me, the admin, using. Usermin is for different things than what I want to do, though it might be shoehorned into doing what I want.	[reply]
Re^5: CGI and System Administration by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Apr 04, 2008 at 19:25 UTC
I know you're looking for a control panel for your users and not for yourself. It's not my intention to steer you to control panels for your use. It's just that most of the control panel software that's fit for end users is comprehensive enough that it also features an admin console. cPanel, Plesk, and the lot of them I mentioned have at least some control the end users can assert, and the whole panel infrastructure is already built. I thought those might offer a good basis for what you want to do.	[reply]