Re: [cobalt-developers] managing groups on a RaQ2

["Olivier Ozoux" <bulk.email@xxxxxxxxx>]

There's a group tab in the UI for the Qube2, so I guess this would be the
same on the Raq2, it creates the group, and lets you specify which users are
part of the group.

Speaking of UI, is there any kind of web front-end that would let you manage
.htaccess and htpasswd files? I'd like to be able to control web-access
using either a web-form or a email request system, so users could log-in,
request a username/password to access certain parts of my site.

-Olivier Ozoux

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Keller <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <dan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: [cobalt-developers] managing groups on a RaQ2


> Hello Cobalt Gurus --
>
> Hope this question isn't so basic that
> I get flamed by you genius guru folks...
>
> Couldn't find anything in the support
> archive about this, so here goes.
>
> I want to password-protect some web
> pages with the usual .htaccess mechanism
> and think it would be convenient to
> base the rules on the RaQ2's Linux's
> /etc/passwd and /etc/group files.
> My understanding (correct me if I'm
> wrong) is that if you don't specify the
> location of the user and group files in
> the .htaccess file, it goes by default
> to Linux's.
>
> For example, I'd like to restrict access
> to the pages in a certain directory to
> users who are members of a group named
> "sales".  So I need to create this group.
>
> Entries in /etc/passwd are easily created
> using the Cobalt browser GUI, but I see
> no mecahnism there for creating groups.
>
> As far as I can tell, the way to
> create entries in /etc/group is
> simply with vi, which is easy, but I'm
> concerned that the GUI may overwrite my
> changes.  What's the right way to create
> entries in /etc/group?
>
> Thanks in advance for your words of wisdom.
>
> Dan Keller
> dan@xxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.keller.com/
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