Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:36:38 -0800 (PST) From: "W. Reilly Cooley" <wcooley@nakedape.navi.net> To: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Web Based Script Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903311031500.29021-100000@rheingold> In-Reply-To: <19990331080727.A26659@intrepid.net>
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On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Mark Conway Wirt wrote: > Does it have to be Web based? We have a mail based one -- the user > sends a message to support with the subject of HOURS, and procmail > kicks of a perl script that mails them the information back. Seems to > work well, and the nice thing about it is a user can only check their > hours, and it needs no authentication. It checks the hours of the > account that sent the mail, and sends the results back to that > address, so even if someone forges the "from" header, they wont see > the result.... I doesn't /have/ to be web based, but people seem to have a damned hard time understanding anything else. (For example, look at how many 'subscribe' messages go directly to this list!) Maybe a menu with pdmenu is the way to go; you can link off of your user's help page with a 'telnet://yourhost', which I think all browsers understand. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@nakedape.navi.net Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.navi.net Internet Meta-Resources: http://nakedape.navi.net/meta-res/ "All the Net you need to be a geek" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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