From dbii at interaction.net Thu Dec 1 20:54:33 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 22:54:33 -0600 Subject: APM: December Meeting Message-ID: <112ec778eb021b3de4313b1fb6dbc577@interaction.net> Okay, I think we still were going to do our December gathering on the 21st (3d Wed), but I forget where. Z-Tejas? Or was it someplace else. We will just be having a group dinner. Who remembers where we decided? David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From wwalker at bybent.com Fri Dec 2 07:04:06 2005 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 09:04:06 -0600 Subject: APM: December Meeting In-Reply-To: <112ec778eb021b3de4313b1fb6dbc577@interaction.net> References: <112ec778eb021b3de4313b1fb6dbc577@interaction.net> Message-ID: <20051202150406.GC4355@bybent.com> Wayne votes for Z-Tejas, ahhh... Cheicken Fried Ribeye, but ... whereever. On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:54:33PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: > Okay, I think we still were going to do our December gathering on the > 21st (3d Wed), but I forget where. Z-Tejas? Or was it someplace else. > We will just be having a group dinner. Who remembers where we decided? > > David > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David H. Bluestein II > President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net > ii, inc. > http://www.interaction.net > -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu Fri Dec 2 10:20:00 2005 From: jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu (Fluhmann, Jeremy) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:20:00 -0600 Subject: APM: Perl FTP server Message-ID: <297203B1AD107A438D2616D3A8E9B3820457271A@dsae2k.dsad.ad.tamu.edu> Ok, maybe I haven't been able to think through this, but here is what I'm looking at: My department hosts 400+ web sites for our student organizations. Some sites run on a Windows Server 2003 box w/ IIS 6.0, while the others run on a Windows 2000 Server box w/ IIS 5.1. They will be consolidating soon to 2003/IIS 6.0. Every semester, several students come by, call, and e-mail saying, "We don't know our FTP username/password". The information is never passed along. I get tired of resetting passwords. What I want to experiment with is this: All students have a university login. I can write web applications that can use this login for authentication (via CAS or LDAP). I want to allow the President of each organization to be able to add student logins as webmasters for their site. The student's login is stored in a database, as well as each site that they can manage (some students are webmasters for several groups). I can already do all of this. I want to be able to have these users use their student login to connect via FTP. I only want the folders for which they have access to be displayed (using the information stored in the database). I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms that anyone has. I thought about trying to write my own FTP server. I acknowledge that I need to do some research on FTP server, since I'm not exaclty sure if I could modify it to work like I want. Since I'm fairly comfortable with Perl, can anyone point me to resources for writing an FTP server in Perl? Also remember, I am currently on a Windows box. I have a linux test server running FC4 if suggestions are provided for a linux solution. I've been able to successfully map windows folders from my web server to the linux box, but the permissions are confusing me a little. My boss prefers to keep everything running on the windows boxes. Thanks, Jeremy Jeremy Fluhmann Microcomputer Specialist Department of Student Activities Texas A&M University 979-458-4649 jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/austin/attachments/20051202/6c66c374/attachment.html From wwalker at bybent.com Fri Dec 2 10:35:42 2005 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:35:42 -0600 Subject: APM: Perl FTP server In-Reply-To: <297203B1AD107A438D2616D3A8E9B3820457271A@dsae2k.dsad.ad.tamu.edu> References: <297203B1AD107A438D2616D3A8E9B3820457271A@dsae2k.dsad.ad.tamu.edu> Message-ID: <20051202183542.GF4355@bybent.com> perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::FTPSrerver' Development time, 5 minutes :) On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:20:00PM -0600, Fluhmann, Jeremy wrote: > > Ok, maybe I haven’t been able to think through this, but here is what I’m > looking at: > > > My department hosts 400+ web sites for our student organizations. Some > sites run on a Windows Server 2003 box w/ IIS 6.0, while the others run on a > Windows 2000 Server box w/ IIS 5.1. They will be consolidating soon to > 2003/IIS 6.0. > > Every semester, several students come by, call, and e-mail saying, “We > don’t know our FTP username/password”. The information is never passed > along. I get tired of resetting passwords. > > > What I want to experiment with is this: > > All students have a university login. I can write web applications that can > use this login for authentication (via CAS or LDAP). I want to allow the > President of each organization to be able to add student logins as > webmasters for their site. The student's login is stored in a database, as > well as each site that they can manage (some students are webmasters for > several groups). I can already do all of this. > > > I want to be able to have these users use their student login to connect via > FTP. I only want the folders for which they have access to be displayed > (using the information stored in the database). > > > I welcome any comments, suggestions, or criticisms that anyone has. I > thought about trying to write my own FTP server. I acknowledge that I need > to do some research on FTP server, since I'm not exaclty sure if I could > modify it to work like I want. Since I'm fairly comfortable with Perl, can > anyone point me to resources for writing an FTP server in Perl? Also > remember, I am currently on a Windows box. I have a linux test server > running FC4 if suggestions are provided for a linux solution. I've been > able to successfully map windows folders from my web server to the linux > box, but the permissions are confusing me a little. My boss prefers to keep > everything running on the windows boxes. > > > Thanks, > > Jeremy > > Jeremy Fluhmann > > Microcomputer Specialist > > Department of Student Activities > > Texas A&M University > > 979-458-4649 > > jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From kh at greenshire.com Fri Dec 2 10:48:08 2005 From: kh at greenshire.com (Keith Howanitz) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:48:08 -0600 (CST) Subject: APM: Perl FTP server Message-ID: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Fluhmann, Jeremy wrote: > Ok, maybe I haven't been able to think through this, but here is what > I'm looking at: [SNIP] > > I want to be able to have these users use their student login to connect > via FTP. I only want the folders for which they have access to be > displayed (using the information stored in the database). [SNIP] Are you sure you want students passing that username/password combo over the internet in plain text? Maybe you should evaluate sftp of some other way of encrypting the password. -Keith From jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu Fri Dec 2 12:30:00 2005 From: jeremy at stuact.tamu.edu (Fluhmann, Jeremy) Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:30:00 -0600 Subject: APM: Perl FTP server Message-ID: <297203B1AD107A438D2616D3A8E9B3820457271B@dsae2k.dsad.ad.tamu.edu> > Are you sure you want students passing that username/password combo over > the internet in plain text? Maybe you should evaluate sftp of some other > way of encrypting the password. Good point Keith. OK, so new plan is to research how to modify an existing SFTP server for my use, or learn how to make one (don't know if that would happen) From CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com Mon Dec 5 15:40:47 2005 From: CaptNemo at Austin.rr.com (CaptNemo) Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:40:47 -0600 Subject: APM: 2 digit variables OR integers? In-Reply-To: <20051202150406.GC4355@bybent.com> References: <112ec778eb021b3de4313b1fb6dbc577@interaction.net> <20051202150406.GC4355@bybent.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051205173446.01e5a010@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Is there a SIMPLE way limit PERL variables to 2 digits (for handling money tasks)? AND/OR How do you get an integer? Is it: INT($variable) ? From wwalker at bybent.com Mon Dec 5 15:47:26 2005 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:47:26 -0600 Subject: APM: 2 digit variables OR integers? In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20051205173446.01e5a010@pop-server.austin.rr.com> References: <112ec778eb021b3de4313b1fb6dbc577@interaction.net> <20051202150406.GC4355@bybent.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20051205173446.01e5a010@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Message-ID: <20051205234726.GM4098@bybent.com> I highly recommend using a library for money math Math::Currency Math::FixedPrecision Bundle::Math::Financial ... On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:40:47PM -0600, CaptNemo wrote: > Is there a SIMPLE way limit PERL variables to 2 digits (for handling money > tasks)? > > > AND/OR > > > How do you get an integer? Is it: INT($variable) ? > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From eharris at puremagic.com Mon Dec 5 15:55:50 2005 From: eharris at puremagic.com (Evan Harris) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 17:55:50 -0600 (CST) Subject: APM: 2 digit variables OR integers? In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20051205173446.01e5a010@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Message-ID: Assuming you want rounding, the generally accepted practice is to use $num = sprintf("%.02f", $num); Evan On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, CaptNemo wrote: > Is there a SIMPLE way limit PERL variables to 2 digits (for handling money > tasks)? > > > AND/OR > > > How do you get an integer? Is it: INT($variable) ? > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > From dbii at interaction.net Mon Dec 12 08:39:17 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:39:17 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question Message-ID: Everyone- We decided Z-Tejas in the arboretum for this year's Christmas/Holiday meeting. What time is good for everyone to make it? 6:30 pm? Does anyone need later than that to get there? David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From tmcd at panix.com Mon Dec 12 10:38:49 2005 From: tmcd at panix.com (tmcd@panix.com) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:38:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, David Bluestein II wrote: > We decided Z-Tejas in the arboretum for this year's > Christmas/Holiday meeting. What time is good for everyone to make > it? 6:30 pm? Does anyone need later than that to get there? Um, what day is it scheduled for? -- "Me, I love the USA; I never miss an episode." -- Paul "Fruitbat" Sleigh Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com From dbii at interaction.net Mon Dec 12 10:54:44 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:54:44 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> Sorry, normal meeting day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, for those who are around. A more formal announcement will be made once the time is decided. David On Dec 12, 2005, at 12:38 PM, tmcd at panix.com wrote: > On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, David Bluestein II wrote: >> We decided Z-Tejas in the arboretum for this year's >> Christmas/Holiday meeting. What time is good for everyone to make >> it? 6:30 pm? Does anyone need later than that to get there? > > Um, what day is it scheduled for? > > -- > "Me, I love the USA; I never miss an episode." -- Paul "Fruitbat" > Sleigh > Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From ian at remmler.org Mon Dec 12 11:44:31 2005 From: ian at remmler.org (Ian Remmler) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:44:31 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> References: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> Message-ID: <20051212194431.GA27227@remmler.org> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: > Sorry, normal meeting day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, for those who are around. I could be thinking of something else, but I vaguely remember talking about doing the December dinner on the second (this) Wednesday since more people might be around. Either date works for me, though. -- "If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable." -- Mitch Hedberg From dbii at interaction.net Mon Dec 12 11:56:00 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:56:00 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: <20051212194431.GA27227@remmler.org> References: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> <20051212194431.GA27227@remmler.org> Message-ID: That's the problem, I forgot to write it down (date and time) and was in the middle of project at the time so I don't remember what we decided. I'm open for group consensus, though if this Wed we need to decide quickly so everyone will know. I remember Ian, Bill, Wayne, Heath and Chris were there, and a couple of others. What do y'all want to do? And anyone else who is planning to show up, speak up. David On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Ian Remmler wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: >> Sorry, normal meeting day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, for those who are >> around. > > I could be thinking of something else, but I vaguely remember > talking about doing the December dinner on the second (this) > Wednesday since more people might be around. Either date works > for me, though. > > -- > "If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were > walking down a sidewalk and he fell, that would be completely > unacceptable." -- Mitch Hedberg > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From tshinnic at io.com Mon Dec 12 13:23:09 2005 From: tshinnic at io.com (Thomas L Shinnick) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:23:09 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: References: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> <20051212194431.GA27227@remmler.org> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.2.20051212151725.04141eb0@mail.io.com> At 13:56 12/12/2005, David Bluestein II wrote: >That's the problem, I forgot to write it down (date and time) and was >in the middle of project at the time so I don't remember what we >decided. I'm open for group consensus, though if this Wed we need to >decide quickly so everyone will know. > >I remember Ian, Bill, Wayne, Heath and Chris were there, and a couple >of others. What do y'all want to do? And anyone else who is planning to >show up, speak up. > >David Barring previously made plans, this week would very likely be easier for most people than next week. I know that for me, once the mother-in-law sleighs into town my plans become 'iffy'. Mark me down as more confident this week than next. >On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Ian Remmler wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: >>> Sorry, normal meeting day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, for those who are >>> around. >> >> I could be thinking of something else, but I vaguely remember >> talking about doing the December dinner on the second (this) >> Wednesday since more people might be around. Either date works >> for me, though. >> >> -- >> "If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were >> walking down a sidewalk and he fell, that would be completely >> unacceptable." -- Mitch Hedberg >> _______________________________________________ >> Austin mailing list >> Austin at pm.org >> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin >> >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >David H. Bluestein II >President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net >ii, inc. >http://www.interaction.net > -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From wwalker at bybent.com Mon Dec 12 17:04:01 2005 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:04:01 -0600 Subject: APM: December Dinner Question In-Reply-To: References: <58b62746fff6e74dde261a00d7717bbc@interaction.net> <20051212194431.GA27227@remmler.org> Message-ID: <20051213010401.GA4960@bybent.com> This week is better for me, but I can't promise I'll make it. I hate consulting. On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:56:00PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: > That's the problem, I forgot to write it down (date and time) and was > in the middle of project at the time so I don't remember what we > decided. I'm open for group consensus, though if this Wed we need to > decide quickly so everyone will know. > > I remember Ian, Bill, Wayne, Heath and Chris were there, and a couple > of others. What do y'all want to do? And anyone else who is planning to > show up, speak up. > > David > > On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:44 PM, Ian Remmler wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: > >> Sorry, normal meeting day, Wednesday, Dec. 21, for those who are > >> around. > > > > I could be thinking of something else, but I vaguely remember > > talking about doing the December dinner on the second (this) > > Wednesday since more people might be around. Either date works > > for me, though. > > > > -- > > "If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were > > walking down a sidewalk and he fell, that would be completely > > unacceptable." -- Mitch Hedberg > > _______________________________________________ > > Austin mailing list > > Austin at pm.org > > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David H. Bluestein II > President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net > ii, inc. > http://www.interaction.net > -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- > > _______________________________________________ > Austin mailing list > Austin at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From mlehmann at lehmbrain.net Mon Dec 12 20:28:43 2005 From: mlehmann at lehmbrain.net (Mark Lehmann) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:28:43 -0600 (CST) Subject: APM: Either Wendesday works for me. Message-ID: <33953.72.1.130.12.1134448123.squirrel@lehmbrain.net> If we are counting votes, either night works for me. However, this Wednesday if the one I like best. From dbii at interaction.net Tue Dec 13 07:40:16 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:40:16 -0600 Subject: APM: December Meeting Discussion -- Join us on IRC Message-ID: <9d927652aab729ade23bee074cc41985@interaction.net> After some discussion on the list, the meeting for December will be Tomorrow, Wednesday Dec 14 since the 21st is too close to Christmas. Our first choice, Z-Tejas in the Arboretum can't seat us until 8:15, which is a little late. So we've setup an IRC channel #apm at irc.freenode.net. Come join us there and tell us where you want to go. David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites -- From wwalker at bybent.com Tue Dec 13 07:59:31 2005 From: wwalker at bybent.com (Wayne Walker) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:59:31 -0600 Subject: APM: December Meeting Discussion -- Join us on IRC In-Reply-To: <9d927652aab729ade23bee074cc41985@interaction.net> References: <9d927652aab729ade23bee074cc41985@interaction.net> Message-ID: <20051213155931.GG4960@bybent.com> If you need help with IRC, ping me via Jabber, AIM, or email. My contact info is below in the sig. On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:40:16AM -0600, David Bluestein II wrote: > After some discussion on the list, the meeting for December will be > Tomorrow, Wednesday Dec 14 since the 21st is too close to Christmas. > > Our first choice, Z-Tejas in the Arboretum can't seat us until 8:15, > which is a little late. So we've setup an IRC channel #apm at > irc.freenode.net. Come join us there and tell us where you want to go. > > David -- Wayne Walker www.unwiredbuyer.com - when you just can't be by the computer wwalker at bybent.com Do you use Linux?! http://www.bybent.com Get Counted! http://counter.li.org/ Perl - http://www.perl.org/ Perl User Groups - http://www.pm.org/ Jabber: wwalker at jabber.gnumber.com AIM: lwwalkerbybent IRC: wwalker on freenode.net From dbii at interaction.net Tue Dec 13 08:47:24 2005 From: dbii at interaction.net (David Bluestein II) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:47:24 -0600 Subject: APM: December Meeting Tomorrow, Wednesday the 14th Message-ID: Our December Meeting will be dinner only, since it is the Christmas season. We will be meeting at 6:30 pm at Pok-e Jo's at Great Hills Trail (Arboretum). Show up as you like. http://www.pokejos.com/locations.php January will have a regular meeting, with Ian presenting. See you there! David ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David H. Bluestein II President & Lead Developer dbii at interaction.net ii, inc. http://www.interaction.net -- Specializing in Interactive, Database Driven Websites --