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Re: Access to RIPE-TT data from third parties (fwd)
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Ana Susanj wrote:
> Elo.
>
> > From our side, there is one other requirement: the scheme
> > must still be
> > maintainable, we do not want to spend our days adding and resetting
> > passwords. Ana, our new network engineer, is currently looking at the
> > best way to implement this.
>
> OK. I met with Mal this afternoon to see what he's done about a similar
> thing (secure web stuff where LIRs can log in and add new contacts etc..).
> We'd have a bit more to keep in mind than he does as there are those
> ttxy directories.
OK, so if I understand this correctly, there are 2 groups for each
test-box: ttxx and ttxx_admin. ttxx_admin can add/delete user/password
combinations. ttxx can only look. This looks like what we want.
> He's done something very similar. The only difference being that he's
> storing crypt passwords in plain text files, which is not as efficient
> in perl (as storing them in dbm files) (code efficient).
>
> Another thing he suggested was to put all functions into one file (e.g.
> add, modify, delete) rather than having them separately. But I originally
> had that in mind anyway. It just means less duplicated code.
You can also put the common code in a perl-module and load that in the
scripts. The functions are then still separate (and thus more
maintainable), but no code is duplicated.
> This seems sufficient, but I'm open for criticism and comments. Does
> anyone have any or should we give this a go?
We need the delete.cgi.
Perhaps you can combine add.cgi and modify.cgi (if a user exists, then
modify his permissions, if not, make a new one).
Other than that: yes, let's try this.
Henk
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