Re: [Samba] Modifying SWAT views for general users

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Roy P Costa wrote:
| I'm looking at having my general Samba users change their own
passwords on
| my Linux server using SWAT. Is there a way that I can have them have
| access to the password changing view and not be able to see the
| configuration and status information. Is there an easy way for those
| "button" to not appear on the web page?
|
|
| Roy Costa
| roycosta at us.ibm.com
|
|

I've just committed the attached patch to SVN. It adds a '-P'
command-line option to SWAT. Running swat -P will now do what you asked
about above -- only show the "Password" menu to read-only users. Please
test it, and let us know if it works out for you. Cheers,

deryck

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Index: source/web/swat.c
================================================== =================
--- source/web/swat.c (revision 5172)
+++ source/web/swat.c (working copy)
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
#include "web/swat_proto.h"

static BOOL demo_mode = False;
+static BOOL passwd_only = False;
static BOOL have_write_access = False;
static BOOL have_read_access = False;
static int iNumNonAutoPrintServices = 0;
@@ -530,7 +531,8 @@
image_link(_("Printers"), "printers", "images/printers.gif");
image_link(_("Wizard"), "wizard", "images/wizard.gif");
}
- if (have_read_access) {
+ /* root always gets all buttons, otherwise look for -P */
+ if ( have_write_access || (!passwd_only && have_read_access) ) {
image_link(_("Status"), "status", "images/status.gif");
image_link(_("View Config"), "viewconfig", "images/viewconfig.gif");
}
@@ -1315,6 +1317,7 @@
struct poptOption long_options[] = {
POPT_AUTOHELP
{ "disable-authentication", 'a', POPT_ARG_VAL, &demo_mode, True, "Disable authentication (demo mode)" },
+ { "password-menu-only", 'P', POPT_ARG_VAL, &passwd_only, True, "Show only change password menu" },
POPT_COMMON_SAMBA
POPT_TABLEEND
};

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