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Jolly Frederic | 1 Feb 2005 10:30
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[webmin-devel] Adding some cheks to the Mount module

Hello,

I'm wondering if it could be useful (and possible) to add in the Mount module 
some checks to help the sysadmin, when mounting and unmountiong an NFS 
filesystem.
This checks would display a warning to the user, to let him choose either to 
continue or modify his choices.

I was thinking to add the following checks:
- when mounting a filesystem, detect if the local directory is not empty or is 
a previous mount. This, to prevent the local directory from being masked.
- when unmounting a filesystem, display a list of the local users who are 
using this filesystem
- sort /etc/fstab, so parent directories are mounted before subdirectories (to 
prevent conflicts)
- when mounting a filesystem, detect if the directory on the remote host is 
not already a filesystem mounted from another host (but how is it possible?) 
This could be very useful in big networks to prevent mounting mounts.

What do you think?

Fred.

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Martin Mewes | 1 Feb 2005 20:41
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[FAQ] Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin - On the fly updates

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History:
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01.02.2005
Webmin-Development-Version 1.181 released

24.01.2004
Webmin-Version 1.180 released as stable
Usermin-Version 1.110 released as stable

31.12.2004
Usermin-Development-Version 1.109 released

27.12.2004
Virtualmin-Development-Version 2.41 released

17.12.2004
Virtualmin-Version 2.40 released as stable

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Current Stable Release for Webmin is 1.180
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180.tar.gz
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180-1.noarch.rpm
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180-minimal.tar.gz

Current Development Release for Webmin is 1.181
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Jamie Cameron | 2 Feb 2005 01:51

Re: [webmin-devel] Adding some cheks to the Mount module

Hi Fred,

Those all sound like good features to me, and I would be glad to accept a patch
to implement them. The last one may not be do-able though, as I don't know of
any way of determining where a remote host is mounted it's filesystems from ..

 - Jamie

Jolly Frederic wrote ..
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if it could be useful (and possible) to add in the Mount
> module 
> some checks to help the sysadmin, when mounting and unmountiong an NFS
> filesystem.
> This checks would display a warning to the user, to let him choose either
> to 
> continue or modify his choices.
> 
> I was thinking to add the following checks:
> - when mounting a filesystem, detect if the local directory is not empty
> or is 
> a previous mount. This, to prevent the local directory from being masked.
> - when unmounting a filesystem, display a list of the local users who are
> using this filesystem
> - sort /etc/fstab, so parent directories are mounted before subdirectories
> (to 
> prevent conflicts)
> - when mounting a filesystem, detect if the directory on the remote host
> is
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paddy | 2 Feb 2005 17:33

[webmin-devel] heartbeat authkeys

Hi,

I'm just looking at the heartbeat module in webmin 1.80.
The rest of the box is debian sarge with heartbeat_1.2.3-5.

I'm new to heartbeat, and have no idea yet whether the
authkeys file format has changed.

The authkeys interface doesn't seem to map to the underlying
config file.  As I read it the format is something like:

auth    <indexi-to-use>
<index> <cipher> <pass>
<index> <cipher> <pass>
<index> <cipher> <pass>

such that <index-to-use> specifies which line to actually use.

examples from the documentation include:

auth 1
1 crc
2 sha1 HI!
3 md5 Hello!

and

auth 1
1 sha1 key-for-sha1-any-text-you-want
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Martin Mewes | 2 Feb 2005 21:05
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[FAQ] Webmin/Usermin/Virtualmin - On the fly updates

######################################################################

History:
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02.02.2005
Virtualmin-Development-Version 2.43 released

01.02.2005
Webmin-Development-Version 1.181 released

24.01.2004
Webmin-Version 1.180 released as stable
Usermin-Version 1.110 released as stable

31.12.2004
Usermin-Development-Version 1.109 released

17.12.2004
Virtualmin-Version 2.40 released as stable

######################################################################

Current Stable Release for Webmin is 1.180
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180.tar.gz
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180-1.noarch.rpm
http://webmin.mamemu.de/devel/tarballs/webmin-1.180-minimal.tar.gz

Current Development Release for Webmin is 1.181
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Jamie Cameron | 2 Feb 2005 23:49

Re: [webmin-devel] heartbeat authkeys

paddy wrote ..
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just looking at the heartbeat module in webmin 1.80.
> The rest of the box is debian sarge with heartbeat_1.2.3-5.
> 
> I'm new to heartbeat, and have no idea yet whether the
> authkeys file format has changed.
> 
> The authkeys interface doesn't seem to map to the underlying
> config file.  As I read it the format is something like:
> 
> auth    <indexi-to-use>
> <index> <cipher> <pass>
> <index> <cipher> <pass>
> <index> <cipher> <pass>
> 
> such that <index-to-use> specifies which line to actually use.
> 
> examples from the documentation include:
> 
> auth 1
> 1 crc
> 2 sha1 HI!
> 3 md5 Hello!
> 
> and
> 
> auth 1
> 1 sha1 key-for-sha1-any-text-you-want
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paddy | 3 Feb 2005 15:19

Re: [webmin-devel] heartbeat authkeys

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:49:24AM +1100, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> The current interface is supposed to handle that auth.cf format .. 

The problem I had is as follows:

I setup an authkeys file according to the heartbeat documentation
(GettingStarted.txt lines 350-390 in the version I have), thus:

  auth 1
  1 sha1 foo

When I went to edit_auth, it did not reflect the underlying configuration,
because it does not understand the format - It told me I was using crc.

To reiterate:

edit_auth reads "auth 1" as meaning "auth crc".  This works fine if you only use the 
numbers thus:

  1 crc
  2 sha1 pass
  3 md5 pass

But will break with other legal authkeys files.

> Basically, it will
> allow you to select one of the three modes, and comment out the ones that are not being
> used. Do you see any problem with this?
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Jamie Cameron | 4 Feb 2005 00:24

Re: [webmin-devel] heartbeat authkeys

Ah, I see what you mean now - ny code was assuming a certain ordering
for the options. The next release of Webmin will fix this ..

 - Jamie

paddy wrote ..
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:49:24AM +1100, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > 
> > The current interface is supposed to handle that auth.cf format .. 
> 
> The problem I had is as follows:
> 
> I setup an authkeys file according to the heartbeat documentation
> (GettingStarted.txt lines 350-390 in the version I have), thus:
> 
>   auth 1
>   1 sha1 foo
> 
> When I went to edit_auth, it did not reflect the underlying configuration,
> because it does not understand the format - It told me I was using crc.
> 
> To reiterate:
> 
> edit_auth reads "auth 1" as meaning "auth crc".  This works fine if you
> only use the 
> numbers thus:
> 
>   1 crc
>   2 sha1 pass
>   3 md5 pass
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paddy | 4 Feb 2005 10:59

Re: [webmin-devel] heartbeat authkeys

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:24:28AM +1100, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> Ah, I see what you mean now - ny code was assuming a certain ordering
> for the options. 

Yes.

> The next release of Webmin will fix this ..

Great!

Regards,
Paddy
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Hugo Cornelis | 7 Feb 2005 13:24
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[webmin-devel] external account authentication


Hi there,

If I am correct, accounts external to Webmin must be
created locally and flagged as being external.  Webmin
will then use the external authenticator to
authenticate these accounts.

Is there any way to dynamically synchronize external
accounts with Webmin accounts ?  Actually, I do not
want to have any local account for the ones that need
to be authenticated by an external authentication
layer.

Hugo

		
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