Re: Web based Retrieval Mechanism???

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:10:21PM +0100, HAWKER, Dan wrote:

> Was wondering today if anyone uses/has created a web based file retrieval
> solution. Ideally it would allow users to retrieve files/folders that they
> have access to. For example the contents of their home directories. My
> clients are a mix of FC4/5 and W2K/XP boxes.

Hrrm, I can see that would be quite useful for some people.  You'd need
to be VERY careful about security though.

> Thought I may have a bash myself but thought I'd ask first to stop me
> re-inventing the wheel :)

This would be a very cool wheel to contribute!

I'm guessing from your mention of LDAP that you have consistent userids
and groups across all your machines, so at least for a first stab at it
you could just assume that they are indeed consistent.  But I think you
should leave hooks in place so that someone can put some different
mechanism in place.

For example, in my case I do *not* have consistent userids and groups
between the backup machine and the clients - the backup machine only
does backups, and I don't allow users to log in.  So I have users on
some machines who simply don't exist on the backup machine.  If I were
to use this tool of yours, then I'd want to somehow shim in some code so
that I can have it parse the .../daily.0/hostname/etc/passwd file to get
the relevant userids and do password matching.

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