webadmin-devel

[webmin-devel] Question useradmin layout

[Clemens O. <cl...@cs...>]

Hi alltogether,

while trying to write some to code to synchronize users among multiple 
machines upon creation/modification/deletion, I noticed that many 
functionality lies in the corresponding .cgi-files, not in the user-lib.pl.

My naive idea was to have a useradmin_update.pl file on the master machine, 
with something like:

&remote_foreign_call('my_user_synchronizer', 'create', %{$user_reference});

and on the client machines a module called my_user_synchronizer with a 
lib-file containing:

sub create {
	my (%user) = @_;

	...
	&foreign_call('useradmin', 'create_user', \%user);
	&foreign_call('useradmin', 'make_changes');
	...
}

Works great, user gets created (or deleted or whatever).
However, this way I'm missing all the extended functionality, such as 
group changes, home dir movings etc. I also don't want to cut'n'paste code out 
of the respective cgi-scripts (maintainability ...).

So it occured to me that clean one-function interfaces for each of the user 
maintenance tasks (create, modify, delete) would be the perfect solution. 
Maybe with an additional parameter to turn on/off all output.

Since I'm not aware of the rationale for the current layout of the useradmin 
module, I'd like to ask for some comments on that issue. MAybe somebody even 
has found a working solution already?


Cheers & thanks,
Clemens

Re: [webmin-devel] Question useradmin layout

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

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:05, Clemens Oertel wrote:
> Hi alltogether,
> 
> while trying to write some to code to synchronize users among multiple 
> machines upon creation/modification/deletion, I noticed that many 
> functionality lies in the corresponding .cgi-files, not in the user-lib.pl.
> 
> My naive idea was to have a useradmin_update.pl file on the master machine, 
> with something like:
> 
> &remote_foreign_call('my_user_synchronizer', 'create', %{$user_reference});
> 
> and on the client machines a module called my_user_synchronizer with a 
> lib-file containing:
> 
> sub create {
> 	my (%user) = @_;
> 
> 	...
> 	&foreign_call('useradmin', 'create_user', \%user);
> 	&foreign_call('useradmin', 'make_changes');
> 	...
> }
> 
> Works great, user gets created (or deleted or whatever).
> However, this way I'm missing all the extended functionality, such as 
> group changes, home dir movings etc. I also don't want to cut'n'paste code out 
> of the respective cgi-scripts (maintainability ...).
> 
> So it occured to me that clean one-function interfaces for each of the user 
> maintenance tasks (create, modify, delete) would be the perfect solution. 
> Maybe with an additional parameter to turn on/off all output.
> 
> Since I'm not aware of the rationale for the current layout of the useradmin 
> module, I'd like to ask for some comments on that issue. MAybe somebody even 
> has found a working solution already?

Unfortunately, there is no single clean function for creating a user
with all the extras at the moment. The only good reason for the current
design is that it allows the creation of users without a home directory,
or without a corresponding Samba account. A few other modules do just
this for creating mailboxes and so on.

So anyway, right now you need to call several functions to create a
user. Have a look at the Cluster Users and Groups module's
create_user.cgi script to see how it is done remotely..

 - Jamie

[webmin-devel] trouble with installing my own module

[konan <so...@ra...>]

Hi Everybody! 
I hope you'll find some time to read this letter.
I'm writing a web interface for wget-command.
The problem is that i can;t insert my module into Webmin in the
ordinary way.

I have module.info containing:
name=webget
category=system or webmin (no effect)
depends=1.070
version=1.070
desc=some desc

and also images/icon.gif

i also edited /etc/webmin/webmin.acl - added there my module name in
order to access it

After all of that - I couldnt find my icon at any tab.
So how did i solve that problem:
in webmin-1.070/
                 at
                 ...
                 webget
1) mv at at2
2) mv webget at

Then refresh Webmin - and my Icon Appears!!!!
then
1) mv at webget
2) mv at2 at
And my icon is still on tab under webmin category
But NOTICE THAT:
       when i change category from webmin to system for inst.
icon.gif is left at Webmin category anyway - what't the bug???
It just says that module.info is not read for the second time!!!

Thank you for your answer in advance!!!

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Re: [webmin-devel] trouble with installing my own module

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

For a few versions now, webmin has used the cache file 
/etc/webmin/module.infos.cache to store details of all installed 
modules. If you add one manually (by just creating a subdirectory) or 
change its module.info file, this cache will not be automatically 
refreshed and so your module won't appear properly.

The solution is to just delete that module.infos.cache file after you 
make any of these changes, and it will be re-generated automatically. 
Of course, this is not needed when installing a module from a .wbm 
file, because the cache gets automatically flushed. Only module 
developers will run into this problem ..

  - Jamie

konan wrote:
> Hi Everybody! 
> I hope you'll find some time to read this letter.
> I'm writing a web interface for wget-command.
> The problem is that i can;t insert my module into Webmin in the
> ordinary way.
> 
> I have module.info containing:
> name=webget
> category=system or webmin (no effect)
> depends=1.070
> version=1.070
> desc=some desc
> 
> and also images/icon.gif
> 
> i also edited /etc/webmin/webmin.acl - added there my module name in
> order to access it
> 
> After all of that - I couldnt find my icon at any tab.
> So how did i solve that problem:
> in webmin-1.070/
>                  at
>                  ...
>                  webget
> 1) mv at at2
> 2) mv webget at
> 
> Then refresh Webmin - and my Icon Appears!!!!
> then
> 1) mv at webget
> 2) mv at2 at
> And my icon is still on tab under webmin category
> But NOTICE THAT:
>        when i change category from webmin to system for inst.
> icon.gif is left at Webmin category anyway - what't the bug???
> It just says that module.info is not read for the second time!!!
> 
> Thank you for your answer in advance!!!