Slightly off topic perhaps but potentially intersting to many here, I hope! I'm considering, partly out of curiosity and partly out of hopes that I may get some customers one day who could use it, how I would go about implementing a server administration tool (a la Webmin for example) within a Zope infrastructure. It seems to me that a lot of use could be made of the Zope user/role/privilege facilities to provide a fine grained delegation capability in a relatively secure way; the benefits are obvious (at least to me). Likewise DTML and the SQL facilities couls allow very easy integration with a customer tracking/billing database and products would let me plug-in new capababilities in a neat way. Sounds nice to me! The question I have still to find a good resolution to is how to deal with the backend functionality - updating files, running scripts etc which probably need, at least in part, to be run as root (or as a member of wheel at least). I can see several possibilities -- build an interface to linuxconf for example (but that's non portable), create a slew of suid scripts executable from zope external methods (but how risky is this?), put zope in 'wheel' (no, I don't think I woudl want to do that) and so on ..... I suspect someone may have done something similar already or at least have an opinion on the best way forwards ... any suggestions would be welcome. Of course I suppose I could actually use webmin but that would mean the other P language which I have forgotten ho-to for the moment). -- Nigel Head Houbits Hi-Tech Servers nhead@houbits.com