On Thursday 15 November 2007, Tod Hansmann wrote:
So what you are asking is to have one hobbit installation function in a
manner equivalent to two hobbit installations. The only reason the
apache authentication stuff won't work is because the CGI-BIN stuff
works on the raw data and/or memory state of hobbit's main
functionality. Thus, you would need to hack the code to do two things
that is doesn't do currently:
1) You would need to get permissions built-in to bb-hosts
interpretations, which would be trivial to have understood, but a lot of
changes to do anything with that. (Knowing there's a group A and B is
one thing. Knowing what do with that knowledge is the harder part).
2) You would need to modify all the CGI programs to work on the separate
datas.
This, in my estimation, is not at all what hobbit was designed for, and
you'd be much better off just running two separate instances of hobbit.
You can even run a third to combine the two sets of data into one (like
we do) and only allow yourself to see that one.
Am I missing something in my estimations here?
Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
To get 2 separate instances can be performed by using Alternate Pagesets. See
the Alternate Pagesets section under the bbgen man. That will not solve your
issue with stoping a user group from maint'ing another group's devices, since
the cgi dir isn't separate.
As to limiting users from ack'ing/maint'ing the other groups servers, you can
look at a post I outlined long ago. The post is at:
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/07/msg00534.html
Not sure how this works with alternative page sets, but this should be enough
for you to move forward and tweak accordingly.
~Steve