Re: [cobalt-users] Are there any open source additions to the cobalt admin in php?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jody Brewster" <jbrewster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are there any open source additions/total revamps to the cobalt admin in
> php?

I'm not aware of any open source solutions.

> I'm trying to learn how people have coded in php to access password
> files, emails, etc.  using Raq 4.

Here are a couple of ways.  Use Apache running as root (just like Cobalt's
GUI does) or run Apache as an unprivileged user (like the webserver on the
standard port 80), storing data and pending commands to a database and/or
text files and having PHP CGI (or Perl or another language) scripts called
from a cron job to execute commands that must be run as root.  When building
software like this I prefer the latter alternative for security reasons
(I've built a number of such programs running on RaQs).  I hope that
answered your question.  If not, please ask in more detail on
cobalt-developers since that's the best list for this topic.

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