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List:       webmin-l
Subject:    Re: [webmin-l] XML-RPC Issue
From:       Murray Trainer <mtrainer () central-data ! net>
Date:       2008-07-08 5:51:55
Message-ID: 1215496315.11943.11.camel () localhost
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Is there any way of making a post execution script work?  Maybe allow
variables to be passed to the made_changes function?  We need to run
some commands when selected new groups are created.

Thanks

Murray

> I think I see why - the XML RPC api is stateless, so the environment  
> variables set are not available in the subsequent call. You dont  
> really need to do this unless the server has a post -creation command  
> defined though.
> 
>   - Jamie
> 
> 
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Murray Trainer <mtrainer@central-data.net>  
> wrote:
> 
> >> On 04/Jul/2008 01:56 Murray Trainer wrote ..
> >>> Hi Jamie,
> >>>
> >>> I have got xml-rpc calls working for our admin user working fine.   
> >>> I want to run
> >>> the xml-rpc calls as another more restricted user.  When I do that  
> >>> I get the error
> >>> below:
> >>>
> >>> Method call failed : Fault returned from XML RPC Server, fault  
> >>> code 1: Invalid
> >>> user for RPC
> >>>
> >>> I can't see anywhere to allow the user to do xml-rpc calls?  If  
> >>> you have to add
> >>> some code please e-mail me a copy to test.
> >>
> >> You have to enable RPC on a per-user basis at Webmin Users ->  
> >> username -> Global
> >> ACL, by setting 'Can accept RPC calls' to 'Yes'.
> >>
> >> - Jamie
> >>
> >
> > Thanks for the above - that fixed the issue.  I am now trying to  
> > create
> > a group and run the post execution script after the group is  
> > created.  I
> > can create the LDAP group OK but can't get the post execution script
> > working.  My perl xml-rpc script is below.  I don't think the
> > USERADMIN_* variables are being set correctly but the xmlrpc cgi
> > script.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Murray
> >
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > # Create a new LDAP group
> >
> > use Frontier::Client;
> > use Data::Dumper;
> >
> > $groupname = "mygroup";
> > $gid = "1040";
> > $action = 'CREATE_GROUP';
> >
> > chop($url = `cat url.txt`);
> > eval {
> >  $server = Frontier::Client->new('url' => $url);
> >  };
> > $@ && die "Failed to create server : $@";
> >
> > # Create the group object
> >
> > $group = {
> >          'group' => $groupname,
> >          'gid' => $gid,
> >         };
> >
> > # Create LDAP group
> > $server->call("ldap-useradmin::create_group", $group);
> >
> > print "Created LDAP group $username with uid $uid and gid
> > $group->{'gid'}\n";
> >
> > $server->call("ldap-useradmin::set_group_envs", $group, $action );
> > $server->call("ldap-useradmin::made_changes");
> >
> >
> >
> >
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