RE: [cobalt-users] Using Cobalt CGI scripts without /personal

[Mike Friedman <mnf7228@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Dan wrote:

> > Hi, folks. I'm not sure if this has been asked, but the list archives
> > don't seem to have a search function, and I wasn't finding anything going
> > through by hand.
> >
> > I'm running a virtual domain on a Cobalt Raq and I would like to have
> > password changing pages integrated into my site (i.e., not have to make my
> > users use the /personal GUI) After disecting the /personal GUI, (a
> > perverse mix of CGI, Javascript, and frames, it seems) I was able to
> > discern the names of the parameters passed to the Cobalt CGIs to change a
> > password, but I can't get it to work correctly (the password does not
> > change. The script does not report any error, however.)
> >
> 
> Let me understand:
> You are only hosting a single virtual domain on a Cobalt RaQ and are not the
> RaQ owner. You want to install your own script to have root access to the
> server to make password changes to only your domain?

Not exactly. I'm running a virtual domain on a Raq (on which I do not have
root). My domain has several users, all of whom can currently go to
http://mydomain.com/personal/ to change their password and email info. Now
as far as I know, these scripts don't need to be run as root; they just
need to be run as the user who is accessing them. (This is an assumption
I'm making from all my previous experience with Unix.) I can accomplish
that with CGIwrap easily. What I need is information on building an
interface to these scripts, or better yet, information on using the Cobalt
Perl modules as described in this KnowledgeBase entry:

http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=cgi&qid=306&language=1


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