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Unix::ServiceConfig released

In 2004 I started working with multiple FreeBSD servers for multiple clients, that needed to be administered by non-admin users. I know you are saying “you idiot” and “why would a non-admin user need to administer the server?” I was hired as a consultant and they wanted to be able to add users, web hosts, databases and dns entries more easily than remembering all the little things that were needed. I didn’t trust WebMin at the time due to being hacked several times prior. In response I wrote Unix::ServiceConfig which I hooked up to a perl script as a way to help me with allowing the non-admin users to more easily manage the server.

It worked really well at it’s job, and the users were happy. I haven’t updated the code since 2008, and it is primarily FreeBSD centric. But I figured it is better to release it now, than to never release it. It is under the MIT license.

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