Quote Originally Posted by EonFilms_Rocky View Post
Right, but as I have said, I run a live cam site and need immediate access to certaian features at all times. I need to change a password immediately, ban a problematic chatter immediately, protect a directory immediately. These are not issues that I can open a trouble ticket and wait 5 minutes for. They must be handled promptly and quickly. Five minutues is a lot of time for a model to endure when they are being hrrassed by a jerk in their live chatroom during a cam show.

I hope that you can find a solution.

Rocky
Rocky,

Is there not a way you can take care of this problem programatically? We can ban people via IP without ever needing root. Most programs allow you to ban IP addresses such a vbulletin, phpbb, the wiki projects, nats, strongbox, etc. etc. Those all allow you to change passwords immediately as well. We also have it built in to our custom systems. Maybe there is a simple programming solution that will still allow you to do what you need to. Even from the standpoint of efficiency it would seem that using a handy master control panel to accomplish those tasks would be easier than wondering around a bash shell typing in commands as root.

Btw, you mentioned the need to protect directories, but you should still be able to make use of .htaccess (which apache gives priority to) to protect directories. You don't need root to do that, unless you have something really propriatary going on, which you may.

I don't know your systems, but it was just a thought that occured to me and might work for you.