On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Les, while I understand where you're coming from, I don't quite agree with you. A programming language doesn't make security mistakes, the coder does :) What I'm looking for, is which programming language will be best, i.e. fastest. My OS of choice would be CentOS, but even then that won't make a difference either.
I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, being a scripting language, and not a compiled language.
LDAP can / would but be one component of the whole thing, and I'm not very fond of JAVA, since it's rather slow. Ideally I need something which could interact with the OS layer directly
Rudi Ahlers wrote:I can't help thinking that you are just about to repeat all the security
> Hi,
>
> I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but
> specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases
> / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc.
>
> I already know PHP, but realize it's not quite suited for this kind of
> admin, and I suppose I need to look @ PERL / Python / C++ / Ruby? / others?
>
> Can someone give me some pointers on this?
>
> I basically need to write a control panel, with web access for admins to
> manage servers, similar to what cPanel / WebMin / Plesk / etc does right
> now, but something more customized for our needs.
mistakes those other tools have spent years correcting and that you'd be
much better off using one of the existing tools or making minor mods.
Having said that, it's really about time for someone to tackle this in
java - perhaps with most of the details in a backend LDAP database.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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Hi Les, while I understand where you're coming from, I don't quite agree with you. A programming language doesn't make security mistakes, the coder does :) What I'm looking for, is which programming language will be best, i.e. fastest. My OS of choice would be CentOS, but even then that won't make a difference either.
I can do most of this in PHP, but I do think PHP is a bit slow for this, being a scripting language, and not a compiled language.
LDAP can / would but be one component of the whole thing, and I'm not very fond of JAVA, since it's rather slow. Ideally I need something which could interact with the OS layer directly
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