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Subject: Re: "chrooting" users to their own web/ftp/mail site
From: Don Head (DHeadWAVETECH.COM)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 09:33:51 CDT

> I've got a client who wants to do some
> webhosting on the side for their clients. You
> know, provide their clients with a website, and
> ftp site, etc. and allow the client to do the
> administration via a web interface.
>
> I've found many web-hosting companies that do
> this same thing (duh!), but I can't find a
> package that does this. I'm beginning to think
> that all of these hosting companies wrote their
> own. :-?
>
> Does anyone Out There know of a (preferably)
> GPLed package that does this? If not a GPL-ed
> package, does anyone have experience with a
> commercial package that securely locks in the
> user to just their site?
>
> I'm going to go and see if Webmin can be hacked
> to do this sort of thing...

I actually saw something on freshmeat.net that
might be of service:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ispman/

From the description:

ISPman (aka Exchange Killer) is ISP management
software written in Perl, using an LDAP backend
to manage virtual hosts for an ISP. It can be
used to manage DNS, virtual hosts for Apache
config, Postfix configuration, Cyrus mail boxes,
proftpd, etc. It provides a central web-based
user interface from which domains and all their
parameters can be managed.

Now, I've never used the thing, nor even
downloaded it, so I couldn't tell you the first
thing about how well it works. I just thought
I'd pass the link along.

Don Head [donheadlinux-certified.org]
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