Re: [cobalt-users] Adding/Modifying/Deleting Users from shell or script

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Ryan Howe wrote:

> I have created a MySQL database to manage users for billing purposes. The
> frontend is webbased simular to the current Raq GUI but with some additional
> information. My question is how can I use the current perl scripts on the
> Raq to add/modify/delete users? It appears that you have to be in root in
> order to use the Cobalt::Meta.pm but I don't want to use a system() command
> as root to use these scripts because of security. Also I have seen
> references to the Raq.shell-tools which appear to be exactly what I need but
> again they would need to be run as root. How does the current GUI add users
> the the domain with only site administrater permissions? I have tried
> running the scripts and logging in as admin which would should work, as
> admin can add to any domain, but this does not work. Any advise would be
> greatly appreciated. Thank you
>

  Even though you are logged into the GUI as admin the cobalt scripts are
  ran as root.
  Maybe you could write to the database.
  Then have a cron job that makes the additions.
  Wouldn't happen right away. But you send them an email when it's
  complete

Gerald
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