From: aehall@calvin.seattleu.edu (OUTTA HERE!) Subject: Re: System administration tool ??? Date: 29 Jul 1993 16:23:28 GMT
In article <238nqv$e98@serv-200.dfki.uni-kl.de> malik@dfki.uni-kl.de writes:
>In article 10796@charon.cwi.nl, roelofs@cwi.nl (Marcel Roelofs) writes:
>>Hmmm, just wondering ...
>>
>>Some Unix systems have these nifty system administration tools (for
>>instance, HPUX has SAM, AIX has SMIT). These tools let you configure
>
>>If not, you may also read this post as: if I'm not quite alone on this, I am willing to offer my services to such a project.
>>
>
>Yes, i would spend some work on this too.
>I think Tcl/Tk would be a fine base for that (getting quick results).
>I already think for a long time about a tool for handling password entries.
>This should do such things as adding/deleting/modifying password entries,
>selectable from a list browser.
>Another tool could set up these hundred network configuration files.
>For me, it took a long time even to configure my loopback device on my isolated box, so that
>talk,ping, acm and some of the other server/client games worked.
I recently uploaded my ALPHA version of a fixperms program (bash script
actually) to sunsite (/pub/Linux/Incoming/fixperms.tar.z) that allows you
to have a list of files with certain protections. When you run fixperms
it'll read the file and set all the listed files to their specified protections
Check it out... I think it's pretty nifty and would be a great time saver
if packages like mail and lpr came with a protections list. (I know it
took me a while to fiddle with the suid sgid protections for mail and lpr.)
Anthony
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