Re: How to change the unix passwd from 4gl /SPL

In article <31D9291F.399E@csc.com> "Chao Y. Din" <cdin@csc.com> writes: >cMan wrote: >> >> The subject says it all. >> Is it possible to do it? Was there a similar discussion recently? >> Please adviceI have been looking for a solution for two years. But the answer we were >looking for is not from 4gl/SPL but a C code. The additional problems >we have to resolve are as follows. > >1) It must be called from a PC. This narrows the possible solution to >Remote Procecure Call (RPC). Another possibility is to create a demon that reads a "command" table that you create in the database. Each record (which can be inserted from the pc) represents some command to execute. You can be quite elaborate in how faithful a command execution environment you give to the command. For example, if the demon is running as root, you might do a a setgid/setuid to a particular user as represented in the record, change directory to that user's home directory, execute their shell, save the output in another table, etc. I implemented this mechanism as well as a print spooler using the same technique. The motivation was a network limitation that only gave me one channel to the host machine which was taken up by Informix. So I had to do everything using that one channel. Scott