I am looking for some ideas on what is the best way to provide a web interface to end-users UNIX home-dirs. Details below:
- Few thousand users, access linux machines via shell and manipulate files the usual way (cp, rm, mkdir etc) - Need to provide a web-interface to perform similar functions. - Tomcat will runs as www-data:www-data user (low privileges) Unfortunately, user files are owned by user:user and tomcat runs as www-data:www-data so , tomcat/apache cannot read/write user dirs. I am thinking of writing a C app running as root that will listen on a localhost socket for "commands" from the web UI and just execute it (after necessary checks, dropping down privileges etc) Are there any ways to manipulate autofs etc? Are there any better ideas? Regards Anand _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
