Re: Is it possible to be anonymous ?

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

Jean-Charles Passard wrote:

> 	Hello,
> 
> For my first post to this list, I will congratulate you all and especially
> Jaimie Cameron for this really good product.
> 
> We've make some new modules for Webmin that we will post soon (when i will
> have to read the Howto ;-).
> We're working on a standalone server (like the Cobalt's Cube) with webmin as
> interface.
> 
> In a that way, I've several questions :
> 
> 	- I would like to start a project to simplify the creation an management of
> samba shares ( without go througt filesystem right or directory creation)
> and may be add support for acl like Windows do. If anybody find some
> interests ?
> The purpose is to use webmin on station as SAN systems. I think that a
> simplification of the user modules shoud be done too.


Sounds like a good idea ..


> 	- We've corrected some bugs on the squidguard module and we will send soon
> this one too. But we've encounter a little difficulty on webmin for a
> perfect integration of it :
> 	Squidguard use to redirect to a web server in case of deny access but we
> haven't no http server apart wabmin on our servers. The trouble is that
> webmin  ask for a login. We've then patch miniserv.pl to avoid it. That is
> not really clean.
> I would like, for future version such a functionality : a module that can
> activate anonymous access and restrict it on network, host or regexp
> criteria.
> I don't think it's possible without modifying server ? I am wrong ?


You're right, that isn't possible at the moment, and would require modification
of the webmin miniserv.pl webserver. I've been thinking of adding an option somewhere
at allows certain modules to be accessed without needing to login, but that has all
sorts of potential security implications, and wouldn't work for people running webmin
under other webservers like apache.

It is on my TODO list though ..

  - Jamie