On 3 Sep 2013 08:10, "Jonas Smedegaard" <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > What I am thinking is a CGI interface run as an isolated user (e.g. via > uwsgi or apache2-suexec) talking to debconf.
Hi! My thoughts: 1. Presumably debconf needs root privileges, so would you grant that user some limited sudo rights? 2. The UI may also need to restart services, and these can take time. Using a separate daemon (e.g. exmachina) to handle blocking calls allows the web UI to call it asynchronously and show progress info to the user, which is good for usability. 3. I am sceptical that it will be possible to add debconf hooks for every configuration choice needed by the FreedomBox UI. The debian-edu project handles more complex configuration using cfengine - if they found it necessary, I suspect this project will. (I believe Petter might know more about this than me.) A web interface for server management is a really interesting problem, and I think it's worth solving properly. I'd be interested to hear what you think. Kind regards, Tim
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