Re: [webmin-devel] creating a database and random user/pass onmodule install

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

   There's no flag in webmin_links to control who it is visible to - however,
   it will be called for each user when the menu is being created, so you can
   use $remote_user to decide what webmin_links returned. Or better still, call
   virtual_server::master_admin() to check if the current user is root or
   equivalent.
   By the way, plugin docs are at :
   http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,writing_virtualmin_plugins/
    - Jamie

   On 06/Jul/2009 23:10 Tim Allingham wrote ..

     Hi Jamie,
     potentially quite a bit, as when the user has the statistics module
     enabled, doesn't take long at all to generate a few thousand rows, and
     after a few weeks into the 100K plus
     Yeah looks like the best solution will be to disable the user interface
     till setup, and include the config in admin page as a first-run type
     output up front.
     One other question, as the dev docs still seem to be down unfortunately.
     What setting can be used in the webmin_links sub to enforce a link to only
     be visible to the root user? It seems to be escaping me at the moment :)
     Cheers
     Tim
     -----Original Message-----
     From: Jamie Cameron <[1]jca...@we...>
     Reply-to: Webmin development list <web...@li...>
     To: Webmin development list <[2]web...@li...>
     Subject: Re: [webmin-devel] creating a database and random user/pass on
     module install
     Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:44:11 -0700
Hi Tim,
How much data will your module be storing in this DB? If it isn't
large, you may want to look into using text files instead of a database.
This is what Webmin / Virtualmin does, specifically to avoid the
problem of setting up dependencies like MySQL.
However, if you really want to use a database, prompting the user the
first time the module is accessed seems reasonable. You could call the
mysql Webmin module to create the user and database.
  - Jamie
On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:12 PM, Tim Allingham <[3]ti...@be...> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm currently working on a virtualmin/webmin module that works off a
> MySQL backend, and am trying to work out how to automate the
> following during the module install
>
> 1) Create a database - name can be static in this case, though
> either static or random will be fine
>
> 2) Import a MySQL dump to the database
>
> 3) Set up a user with random username and password, and return these
> details to the script
>
> The database is universal, not domain specific for virtualmin, so I
> don't believe its something to be handled by the feature_setup sub
> in virtual_feature.pl.
>
>
> Is this something that is possible to achieve, or should I include
> an install.cgi page that is called if no database details found, for
> the setup to be run initially?
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim Allingham
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