Sign Up server for ISP

[awreneau]

This may not be the best place for this but...

I'm looking for a sign up server package for linux. I currently run RH and I have my users currently log in with a generic uid and pass. Register, log in with their new ID and setup everything manually. Obviously this is outdated way, also introduces the room for error.

What I'm looking for is a signup server. If this is the correct lingo, I understand that the server is to send back the information to the client. This is occuring now but only to the browser, no file is written to the pc for an application to pick up and populate the mail app settings. I've googled for "sign up server" but no software other than a few commercial apps can I find.

Is there a way to do this without investing in a commercial sign up server? I'd like to use something like ISPWizard but reading it's how to's, if I understand this correctly, there needs to be a file written back to the client that the app can read then setup everything. I'd like an open source solution if possible.

Does anyone have some advice to give me?

Thanks

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[thedaver]

Use ISPWizard with Billmax. ISPWiz is awesome and cheap and well support. BIllmax is really focussed on Linux, not entirely cheap, fairly well supported and works with ISPWiz.

A winning combo, but you MUST follow the OS constraints as to which distros that Billmax is profiled to run correctly upon.

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[awreneau]

Billmax will be over kill for me, I have the billing portin handled.

I'm at a loss for the "something" that will send the information back to the client/browser so the wizard can populate the fields.

I'm out of my zone on this, the admins who would normally handle this have a long list of things to do and this particular one is low on the list, hence my attempt to educate myself and make it happen on my own.

We have an online signup, but it's not automated you fill out a form, submitt the info, it either fails or succeeds and then you have a form you can print out for your record. The user then has to disconnect and setup their browser and email program. This has proven to be costly in man hours for technical support who has to walk the users thru setup if they cant figure it out on their own.

I've gotten ISPWizard and it does perfect, it builds the dialer, connects with the guest id and password launches the default browser and goes to our registration page.

This is where I get stuck, I dont know how to make the server send the isd files or the mime-app back to the client/browser.

So I guess my ultimate question is..how does this work? I read in one of many articles that you can do it thru apache but I have no understanding of cgi. I understand that cgi is one of the tools you can do it with.

Suggestions?

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[tarn]

Not sure if this would fit your needs but how about using something like php_users

http://www.majordojo.com/php_users/

to authenticate, and configure it to grant access to an area where your users can pickup (download) the necessary files you need to pass them?

Good luck
Laurie.