Re: [webmin-devel] Usermin Module Global Data

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

On 03/Mar/2008 07:33 Bill Moyers wrote ..
> Hi, is there a good way to have a global data file for a usermin module?
> In other words, certain actions in a usermin module should add/delete a
> line to a single file regardless of user. The global file will be
> processed by a single cron job later. One option obviously is to have a
> globally writeable file, but this seems like a bad solution.

Sure, you could have your module manage a file in /etc/usermin/yourmodulename.
This directory is available in the $module_config_directory global variable.

As long as the module doesn't call &switch_to_remote_user(); , all code
will still run as root and will have write access to that file.

 - Jamie