Topic: 8 wish list items

[Wayne Baldwin]

1) Exclusion ability to block incoming and outgoing internet access and to block eMail addresses, domains and SPAM.

2) Ability to create standards for Passwords.  i.e. Forcing designated legnth and mixing of characters (caps, numbers, etc).

3) Web access statistics report.  Hits per page, etc.

4) Quotas (files storage) for libraries and users.

5) Ability to nest iBays to limit the propagation of "folders" that users see.

6) Ability to assign a user to any group INCLUDING Admin (but probably not ROOT).

7) KDE, XWindows or just an Internal file/directory browser to navigate/edit & read files through the entire system (as Root) whether VIA Network Neighborhood or a free standing interface.

Ability to create aliases without having to create a user.  I would like to have certain people in my company eMail forwarded to their personal, external ISP without having to add them as a user to the LAN.

[jms]

version 4.1 comes with midnight commander. This is a Norton Commander clone.
With this you can navigate/edit & read files through the entire system. You can acces mc by just typing mc at the console when you have login with root.

[sam russo]

I'm not a e-smith expert but I can tell you that some of your wishes are already intact.

7- Use mc ie midnight commander (its already installed on 4.1-its like the old dos Norton Commander left panel and right panel and copy across-works fine)

8- You don't need to make any accounts if all you want is your users picking up external mail. Just point there mail clients (e.g. outlook (yuk!!), pegasus (yum!!)) to there ISP's mail server and thats it.

sam

[Michael Weinberger]

3) Web access statistics report. Hits per page, etc.

I am running AWStats (http://awstats.sourceforge.net). You can find a RPM which plugs AWStats into the e-smith 4.1 web manager at my ftp site
ftp://neddix.dyndns.org/pub/e-smith/packages/RPMS/noarch/e-smith-awstats-2.23-1.noarch.rpm

7) KDE, XWindows or just an Internal file/directory browser to navigate/edit & read files through the entire system (as Root) whether VIA Network Neighborhood or a free standing interface.

WinSCP is Windows prog that uses a secure SSH connection and provides file browsing an copying. It doesn't need installation and can be started from a floppy disk on any WIndows machine

Michael

[Rob Hillis]

> 7) KDE, XWindows or just an Internal file/directory browser
> to navigate/edit & read files through the entire system (as
> Root) whether VIA Network Neighborhood or a free standing
> interface.

Try 'mc' from a command line... this may be what you're looking for...
> WinSCP is Windows prog that uses a secure SSH connection and
> provides file browsing an copying. It doesn't need
> installation and can be started from a floppy disk on any
> WIndows machine

[Dave]

hay awstats is great, for the whole web server only! is there a product/solution for each individual Virtual Domain to veiw their own stats puvblically, the problem is the logs, then need to be split into their own seperate files for each doman

any ideas?

[Greg O]

>  2) Ability to create standards for Passwords. i.e. Forcing designated legnth and mixing of characters (caps, numbers, etc).

Agreed! It would be very handy, instead of having to coax users into creating secure passwords! Not necessarily for me, but how about a configurable timeout of passwords? Ie you must change your password every x weeks/months.


>  5) Ability to nest iBays to limit the propagation of "folders" that users see.

I'd like to do somethign slightly different to this, and perhaps someone can help:
I don't want users to be able to see iBays that they do not have read-access to. The whole window (ie \server\) gets quite cluttered when everyone can see all iBays that everyone can see, and people get confused.

I'm thinking Samba can probably be configured for this, I'm not sure. Please help (:

Greg.