new maintainer kcmdhcpd/kcmbind maybe

[Willy De la Court]

On Sunday 16 February 2003 18:29, Tim Jansen wrote:
> On Sunday 16 February 2003 18:22, Willy De la Court wrote:
> > Since the incorporation of kio_fish in the base install of KDE i want to
> > use the kio_fish to modify the modules so that they be able to read/write
> > remote configuration files.
> > This will enable the modules to remotely administer dhcp and bind server
> > without changing anything on the servers itself or install X and KDE.
> > Is there any program that uses kio_fish in this way already.
> > i'm looking for coding examples to use kio_fish to read and write files
> > from within a program.
>
> kio_fish is used like every other KIO module. You will probably want to use
> the KIO::NetAccess class to read/write files.
>
thx seems NetAccess will do just fine to read and write the config file 
remotely

> But what kio_fish still lacks for remote administration is the ability to
> execute programs - how do you want to restart the daemon after changing the
> configuration files?

I'v looked over the code for kio_fish and i tink with a small patch it would 
be able to execute any code since kio-fish relies on executing code on the 
backend anyway.
I will need to talk to the kio_fish maintainer about that.

or are there so many security problems involved with executing any code?

-- 
Simple things make people happy.
Willy De la Court