[webmin-devel] Webmin feature enhancement idea to recover from mistakes

[Andrew K. <ak...@ra...>]

I recently had the misfortune of making a mistake in my network settings
which in turn had the effect of disconnecting me from my server which is
at a remote location. Eventually someone was able to manually come in
and correct my mistake, but, it occurred to me that a possible soution to
this kind of problem would be to have a mechanism by which changes
are not permanent unless they are confirmed through a transparent
webmin confirmation process. By this I mean, when a change is made
it would revert to a previous setting unless one where to confirm by
logging in again or by clicking a confirm setting when you login again.
So, say I make a drastic mistake in my network configuration. The setting
is made, the network restarts, I lose the connection! Ofcourse, if I have
no connection, I cannot confirm, thus my ass is saved!! Hurray!! The
confirmation might be an interval set by the user. It could be a 10 minute
default
or something. I know that webmin has a caching mechanism built in,
perhaps this would be something like that where it would be used to
recover from a mistake? Perhaps this would be useful in other modules
as well. Perhaps you might lose you web server or database or something.
I don't know, would this be feasible? I can't be the only one that makes
this
kind of mistake. Since this interface is so dependent on a functioning
network, perhaps it would be useful? It could also be an optional feature
only. A feature that might save someone from losing their job! Just a
thought.

-Andrew Kornak