Re: Help, Usermin module coding question!

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

If you just want to deny access to a usermin module on a per-user basis,
this will be possible in the next release of usermin (using a new feature
in the usermin configuration module in the next release of webmin). In fact,
you can try out development versions that include these features right now
from http://www.webmin.com/devel/ if you like ..

  - Jamie

Tony Shadwick wrote:

> 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!