Re: Help, Usermin module coding question!

[Tony S. <tsh...@st...>]

Well, the module I'm writing is for Spambouncer
(http://www.spambouncer.org), and right now I work at an ISP where we have
about 100 users on a single system running FreeBSD for e-mail.  They all use
POP3, and I installed Webmin and Usermin on the system for webmail.
Literally mail forwarding and read e-mail were the only things that show up
when someone logs into Usermin.

Recently, I rolled out Spambouncer as an additional pay service for a few
users to see how they handled it.  I'd been using it for about a year and it
worked wonders for me.  After about a dozen phone calls of people who
couldn't figure out how to download a text file, edit it, and upload it
again, I decided to write a Usermin control module.

I'm using the ACL to control whether a user has access or not based on
whether or not they are paying for the Spambouncer service.  I know it
sounds lame, but it  *does* eat up cpu cycles and additional disk space
(caches last 100 messages for starters) so we have to justify costs.
Besides, it wasn't my choice. :P  Anyway, the ACL fits that task perfectly.
As I said, I can manually edit files and it works, but I presumed (wrongly)
that Usermin had an equivalent control feature. :)

Any thoughts?

On 7/30/02 8:00 PM, "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...> wrote:

> The simple answer is - there is no support for acl_security.pl
> detailed access control editing in usermin. Because all users are
> treated the same, it doesn't really make sense ..
> 
> What kind of restrictions are you trying to configure in
> your acl_security.pl file?
> 
> - Jamie
> 
> Tony Shadwick wrote:
> 
>>> Just got done writing the acl_security.pl for my Usermin module.  The
>>> 
>> thing
>> 
>>> is, the module writing document you have on the site says for Webmin:
>>> 
>>> "Module ACL options are set in the Webmin Users module by clicking on the
>>> name of a module next to a user's name. The options available are
>>> 
>> generated
>> 
>>> by code from the module itself (except for the Can edit module
>>> configuration? option, which is always present). When the user clicks on
>>> Update the form parameters are also parsed by code from the module being
>>> configured, before being saved in the Webmin config directory. "
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Um..okay, that's nice.  But I need to do this for usermin.  My module
>>> obviously won't appear in the Webmin Users module because it's not
>>> 
>> installed
>> 
>>> in Webmin, and there is no such thing as a Usermin Users module, as I
>>> 
>> cannot
>> 
>>> log into Usermin as admin or root.  So...um...where on earth am I supposed
>>> to do this?  I can do it for each individual user from the shell, but
>>> 
>> that's
>> 
>>> silly.  I'm sure it's there someplace, but I certainly don't see it! :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks!