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Philippe Kehl <flip@guv.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 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.

You may want to look into webmin (see http://www.freshmeat.net for this
and other nice tools). This is a complete UNIX administration through WWW,
including quotas.

> 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?

The wrapper is protected by standard Apache protections (ie .htaccess,
with passwords), and just ensures that the appropriate command has
just the needed priviledge for the operation, and nothing else.
This includes checking user-supplied arguments.