Re: [webmin-l] manage slave

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 01:43, Rodney Richison wrote:
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 02:41, Rodney Richison wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>It looks as though I can create webmin users to edit thier own slave's
> >>(offer dns service to friends so they can create, edit thier own backup dns)
> >>
> >>I'm just now playing around with this. Is it possible to get webmin to
> >>also create them in my backup dns server at the same time?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Unfortunately, no. Webmin can create a slave on a backup DNS when you
> >create a master zone, but it cannot (yet) do the same when creating a
> >slave.
> >
> > - Jamie
> >
> >  
> >
> That would be a great feature. The biggest pain of backup dns is having
> to take a few seconds to go manage it for them.   :)   Anyone could do
> backup for anyone with no hassle..

Ok .. I will look into adding this to a future release.

> Along those lines..   Maybe make it a bit easier for them to: create a
> limited user, for bind management when they create a master on thier
> machine using webmin...  Like I already do with my slaves, but geared
> towards doing backup for another webmin user.
> 
> Note: would allowing rpc from this limited user be an issue? Since they
> are limited?   

That won't be a problem, as it isn't actually that user which is used
for RPC.

 - Jamie