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Programming FreeBSD control panel

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diligent

diligent

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Apr 15, 2003
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I am trying to write a control panel for FreeBSD using CGI scripts. Basic functionality I am looking for is adding users, adding virtual domains to apache, basic dns control, etc, all through web interface.

I have run into two problems: I can add a user by calling a pipe to "pw", but I cannot change her password by calling a pipe to "passwd" - for some reason it requires interactive input.

Any ideas?

Second problem: I will have to get my CGI scripts to run as a superuser. What is the best approach? suidperl? Where can I get docs on that?

Thanks in advance.
 
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