[SunHELP] Running Unix applications from the Web

[Peter Stokes]

Hi

Why not change the login shell that the user runs when they login as defined
in passwd?

You could also include some sort of ofrced exit from the shell when they
exit the application by including it in the .profile etc.

Peter
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Peter Stokes
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-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Phil Schilling
Sent: 17 August 2001 09:54
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: [SunHELP] Running Unix applications from the Web


Lance wrote:
>Hi Folks,

>I'm working on a web-based application. As part of the requirement, I also
need to run a >Unix application from the web browser. I'm using Java Telnet
Application, which is an
>applet, to connect to the machine where the application resides. I can get
it to work,
>but the problem is that after the user terminates the application he has
access to the
>unix prompt.

>Can anyone give me lead on how to telnet into a Unix box and run an
application without >the login process and then ending the telnet session
once the application is terminated?

>Thanks,
>Lance.

I do this via the login script, i.e. .profile automatically starting the
application after authentication and issuing an exit when they end the
application thereby closing the java client.  I have a rather large client
doing this via secure http.

Phil

"Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat
you with experience" (Dilberts Rules of Order)




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