Re: File sharing with Nautilus

[Joshua Adam Ginsberg <joshg myrealbox com>]

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 09:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Crazy idea - what if there's a system daemon that modifies the
> smb.conf on user's behalf. The reason for the daemon is that it can
> strictly control what modifications are allowed, take care of locking,
> etc. so might be safer than some sort of suid config-file-munger
> that the user launches.
> 
> If you had a system daemon that was a generic hardware or volume
> monitor daemon, it would naturally do this job also.

I'm feeling this. Let me see if I get it. So you're talking about some
generic interface for dealing with the various server configuration
files and file formats. Then the root administrator for the system gets
to delegate exactly what settings that a normal user could modify, e.g.
they can create new SMB shares, but only in directories that they have
write access to, and the clients accessing the shares have to be user
authenticated. The settings daemon, running as root, would have the
permissions to alter these files as well as restart these services, and
then people like Alex and other Red Hat gnome-python scripters could
write more management tools easier since the settings daemon does the
hard part of actually interfacing with these files and ignoring complex
manual modifications.

That sound right?

-jag