Re: An interface to Apache

On 20 Jun 1997 borud@guardian.no wrote:
> [Paul Sutton]

The admin server also needs to write to the configuration files, which will probably be owned by a different user that the one that the main server runs as.

In terms of who gets access to the admin functions, that I guess can simply be setup by a command line initial install program where you select one (or both) of a IP restriction and/or a username/password restriction. That isn't a big issue.

More important is that we don't want the back-end programs to allow other local users to be able to either change to being another user or do things to the main server (like HUPing it).

I am assuming the interface will be based on a standard browser here to allow for full adminstration from any networked system. This is the great advantage of the web over older applications. It would be a big step backwards to use an admin tool that is OS specific and does not use a browser as its transport.

//pcs Received on Fri Jun 20 11:16:51 1997