Harry Zink wrote: > > SAMBA 2.0 has one killer web-based administration screen, so a linuxconf > module is no longer as critical, albeit it would be nice for > completeness' sake. The Samba 2.0 SWAT tool looks very cool, I was quite impressed when turning on the "advanced view" and this megalist of samba options turned up (90% was quite unknown for me). But I lacked one important feature that linuxconf provides, the ability to give other than root access to create shares etc. So i feel the linuxconf module is still needed, it provides all the useful stuff a co-admin would need access to. Configuring printers is also a common task for co-admins, so I hope this will someday be availble in the samba module. But what about a proxy-function in linuxconf to "front" webtools like this, providing the user-privilige system to "foreign" tools? Say for instance, that you set up SWAT to accept request from one host only (localhost maybe), and then without passord (or make linuxconf send it, linuxconf knows the system password already I would assume) Then you use a kind of proxy in linuxconf to setup a "frontend" configuration, with its own user privilieges, and use this to reach the SWAT page, sending user-request, and returning the result through the normal linuxconf interface. Could this be an useful idea (assuming that more and more packages will provide webinterface in the future, more or less successful)? Just a thought :-) Stein --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
