Re: [cobalt-developers] Adding users programmatically

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hello:
> 	I'm sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it in the 
> archives.  My problem is this:
> Our ISP recently installed a Cobalt Raq3 and have been adding new email 
> accounts manually (through the SiteAdmin web interface).  We have an online 
> subscription form that adds accounts automatically to our database and 
> sends requests to another program that opens the mail accounts by running 
> remote shells scripts (rsh) in our old mail server everytime it receives a 
> request.
> The Raq3 will substitute the old mail server eventually, so I need to find 
> a way to add new accounts in the Raq3 by way of shell scripts (or similar 
> technique) so that our online subscription system can send requests to the 
> program that opens the accounts, and this program in turn can open the 
> accounts in the cobalt server.
> Is there any "safe" way to open email accounts in the Raq3 from a command 
> shell instead of using the SiteAdmin web interface?  I mean "safe" because 
> we do not want to install any extraneous software or tamper with any 
> important files that might void our warranty from Cobalt.
> 	TIA,
> 	dZ.

You need to run the scripts as root, but they do the same thing as the ui.
ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/shell-tools/RaQ3-shell-tools-1.1-2.noarch.rpm

Jeff-