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On 15 Jul 1999, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> Mike Thomi <mthomi@datanetworks.ch> wrote:
> > cron job, der zB alle 12 std ein "repquata -avu >
> > /<dein-htdocs-verzeichnis>/quota.txt macht
> > das gleiche kannste auch mit spacechecks, etc machen.
> 
> That's also the best idea in security point of view.

Okay, but sometimes i need to _run_ a command. Perhaps i'd like to restart
apache or to shutdown some services (inetd).

But how about security? I have an ssl connection to the server. Perhaps
that isn't too secure? But I think it will do for most things. Eg. a
'repquota' is none of other users business' but they cannot do bad things
with it. I could do a second password check for the dangerous commands
like 'apache stop'. Or I could deny that URL from everywhere but my dialup
provider.

Someone wrote about a 'wrapper'. Okay, i know what it is and what it does
(like the in.telnetd, in.ftpd etc stuff). But how do i write one? I'm not
good at c nor at perl and my shell scripts look terrible.

So: Where can i find an example. Where do i 'log in'? Should the wrapper
do a (2nd) password check? Or does the wrapper just check where i'm from
or what i did or want to do?

Hmm.. again a lot of questions.. :-)

adios..

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