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OVERVIEW

General:

Site Master is written entirely in Perl and runs as a CGI script. Web server must support CGI in order to run Site Master. JavaScript is used in very few cases in order provide some facilities to the interface. No essential function is executed using JavaScript

Site master can be used on a web site to manage files and directories, execute system commands without needs to use FTP and Telnet clients.

Important:

As Site Master is a CGI script it has the same permissions as web server does. If web server runs as user Nobody you will have higher permissions using FTP. If you have installed your files and directories using FTP they can not be modified using online file manager unless you change their permissions appropriately. For example if you log into the system through FTP as user abcd and the web server runs as nobody you must set permissions (CHMOD) 777 to directories and files that will be managed using Site Master. It concerns not only Site Master but any online file manager if it operates as different user than FTP client. The opposite remains in force. Files and directories created by online file manager (user nobody) can be inaccessible for FTP client (user abcd) if they are not given appropriate permissions.

Requirements:

Server side: No hardware requirement. Perl and its standard library must be installed. The following Perl modules are used by Site Master: strict, CGI, CGI::carp, URI::escape, File::Copy. It is recommended to install the latest version of CGI module.
Client side: There is no special requirements at all. Client interface is a regular bed browser. Recommended display size is 15” or bigger

Security:
Site master uses password protected interface. Encrypted passwords for each user are stored in the configuration file. A password entered on the login page is being encrypted and compared with the record in the config file. Then the access is done based on session cookies.

Multi-user Operation:
One installation of Site Master can be used by any number of users via Internet/Intranet to connect and manage the host. Each user can be given his/her own “root” directory. A user will never access files and directories located outside of the this directory unless you grant a user such a permission to see full path.

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