[Wien] Multiple users & w2web

[Jeff Spirko]

It is possible, I think.  A perl person would be able to do it
easily.

But, all of the jobs will be "owned" (in the Unix sense) by the user
who started the w2web server.  That usually means that other WIEN2k
users will not be able to view and manipulate the job files without
opening them up to all users on the machine, a security nightmare.

It's probably better to have separate WIEN2k installations for each
user.  This means different ports for each w2web.  But currently,
WIEN2k installs itself with all source and binaries in the same
place, which is many megabytes of stuff.  It is possible to create a
"binary-only" installation by copying the files from the $WIENROOT
directory and the $WIENROOT/w2web subdirectory.  It might be
possible to make a "w2web-only" installation that links to binaries
that someone else installed, while copying the w2web stuff.

-Jeff Spirko

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 06:50:08AM -0500, L. D. Marks wrote:
> Has anyone worked out a way of having multiple users with different
> names/passwords use w2web via port 7890 (so as not to have multiple ports
> open)?
> 
> -----------------------------------------------
> Laurence Marks
> Department of Materials Science and Engineering
> MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall
> 2225 N Campus Drive
> Northwestern University
> Evanston, IL 60201, USA
> Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820
> mailto:L-marks at northwestern.edu
> http://www.numis.northwestern.edu

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