Topic: Scripts for managing ibay contents

[Mike Stoddart]

Is anyone using scripts that allows users to login and manage files in ibays from outside of the E-Smith network?

I have an E-Smith server on the web in Canada, and I host a site for a friend in England. When he wants to make changes to his site, he has to send me the updated pages, and I copy them in manually.

I'd like something that would let a user log in, and let them upload, delete, rename etc.. files in the html and cgi-bin directories.

Any comments/suggestions?
Thanks

[Paul Nesbit]

Your best option:  openSSH.

SSH allows encrypted telnet sessions, and scp (inluded in ssh package) is great for encrypted file uploads and downloads for posting web content.  The ssh utilities are command-line utilities, and there is effort involved in understanding how they work and how to get them working for you, although once that's done it's fast, secure, and easy.

Charlie Brady has posted some instructions for installing as well as the required openssh packages at http://www.e-smith.org/.  Look for an article titled: "Installing OpenSSH on your e-smith server and gateway"

[Charlie Brady]

Paul Nesbit wrote:

> Your best option:  openSSH.

Your best option: openSSH plus rsync. This will allow you secure and efficient remote update of any set of directories on the server. See http://www.samba.org/rsync/ for information about rsync - look in your local RedHat mirror site for an RPM to install.

Charlie

[Mike Stoddart]

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough - I meant to say that I want to let people manage their websites through a web based interface. Thanks.

[Garret]

Mike,

I have been looking into this for awhile now. I've found a couple of scripts that seem to work well. I'm not where I can get to them right now, but I'll let you know if you're still looking,

Garret

[Mike Stoddart]

Garret, let me know what you're looking at, and I'll download them and maybe try them out as well.

thanks

[Garret]

Mike,

Here's the short list. There are many more if you need them.

http://youthofamerica.org/prowebpages/
http://www.terracottasoftware.com/
http://www.thebeaches.to/jmwd/charity_ware/page_updater.shtml
http://www.speakeasy.org/~cgires/sitemgr/
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/7772/webrsh.html

Now don't everybody get crazy on me about security. I don't endorse any of this and am just shooting some information Mikes way.

Garret

[Mike Stoddart]

Thanks for the links! I really appreciate it.