Re: An interface to Apache

On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Paul Sutton wrote:

> The admin server also needs to write to the configuration files, which

Thats not a problem if the admin server is running as root.

> In terms of who gets access to the admin functions, that I guess can

That initial install could just set up you access.conf on the admin server.

> More important is that we don't want the back-end programs to allow other

If they are all owned and executible by root only, I dont see this as a problem.

> I am assuming the interface will be based on a standard browser here to

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Agreed.. and as it was mentioned already, for more security just use a SSL server.. This would, of course require the use of a key authority... It would be ok to be your own key authority (I mean.. there is only going to be one user of this admin server and I think he would trust his own server).. BUT IE will not connect (nor even prompt the user) to a site using their own keyauthority (not on the IE trusted list of key authorities).  

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