At 04:21 PM 10/22/00, Gunnar wrote:
Graham P Collins wrote:
Is anyone on this list using Ringlink on an NT server?
I'm not the one you are looking for. Jay Clark (jay.clark@xxxxxxxxx;
also on this list) helped me with making Ringlink work on NT.
OK, I check with him.
I've been talking to the person who runs my server and he seems to
be telling me that it'd be pretty much impossible to set up Ringlink
in a secure manner. Now it could just be that we're talking past
each other, but it sure sounds like he's saying that the tricks I've
seen described for Unix/Apache to hide the databases with the
passwords from prying eyes cannot be emulated on NT.
Impossible? There must be ways to control the file permissions on NT
also, mustn't it? Maybe you haven't the access to do it, but your
provider has...
Yes, but the details of how the permissions are interpreted and handed
about between perl scripts and users is clearly not the same. (more below)
I am only using my ISP to access the internet. The person running my
server, RUNS the server. He owns the computers and has access to everything.
Also, have you considered suggestion number 2) at
http://rachelle.net/ringlink/miscellany.html#7 ?
I think you mean #8, option (2). No, my understanding is that permissions
are handled in a different manner on NT. For the perl script to access the
items in the lib and data directories, they must be accessible (perhaps
only to clever and nosy people, but nonetheless accessible) to general users.
-- Graham