[ANN]: mkapachepw 1.21 Released And Available
'mkapachepw' Version 1.121 is now released and available for download at: http://www.tundraware.com/Software/mkapachepw This is the first public release of the program. A FreeBSD port has been submitted as well. What Is 'mkapachepw'? ------------------ 'mkapachepw' is an Apache user/group management package with a rich set of features: - Automatically Create Apache Users/Groups From Underlying OS Users/Groups: 'mkapachepw' can extract any or all Unix system users and/or groups and automatically include them in the production Apache user and group files. This makes it easy to manage users via the traditional Unix tools and propagate this information for Apache's use. Note that for this to work, Apache has to understand the hash algorithm the underlying Unix system uses to encrypt password. - Break Large, Complex User & Group Data Into Separately Managed Files: User/Group files can be constructed out of any number of subsidiary files. This allows the webmaster to combine separate user and group files that are independently managed by, say, Marketing, Engineering, Sales, and so on, into single, production Apache user and group files. - Specify Which Particular Users/Groups Are To Be Included Or Excluded: Specific users and/or groups can be explicitly included or excluded in the final user and group files. This can be done by name, UID, or GID. These in/exclusions are applied to both system users/groups, as well as those found in the subsidiary files. - Catch (And Prevent) Redefinition Of User/Groups: "Collisions" of users or groups are caught, and optionally, prevented. Say the Marketing user file has a user named "bob", and so does Engineering. If an attempt is made to consolitate these two subsidiary files into a single Apache user file, 'mkapachepw' will, by default, issue a warning (and the last definition will be that one loaded into the Apache user file). A command line switch is available to prevent this entirely by issuing an error and exiting on the first collision encountered. 'mkapachepw' is a pure-Python application and should run on any Unix system that support Python 2.4 or later. The program is known to work on FreeBSD. See the web page for licensing terms and the complete documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com
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