Thanks Mark. I'll try the WWIPStuff libs. Re. the file, Linux holds this in two files. One is /etc/passwd, and the second I don't recall at the moment. The actual passwords are encrypted by the OS, then stored in the second file. Since I don't need to see the passwords, I can just bring in /etc/passwd, which is a comma-delimited file with one line per account, into a VFP table or cursor. Then if I want to change an account in any way, I would send the appropriate Linux command. That is the hard part at the moment, and hopefully the IP tools will help.


>>I am putting together a Web accounts billing application and would like to include user account maintenance functionality. The accounts are on a Linux box, but the billing will be done in VFP under Windows 98 on a networked machine. This requires that I be able to 1) issue a Linux command for user account updates and 2) copy the user table from the Linux box to VFP for formatting and display. I am taking the approach that 1) would require something in a non-visual Telnet object, and that 2) would use a non-visual FTP client object. There might also be some sort of a TCP/IP text ODBC driver that could be used for 2).
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>>I have been unsuccessful to date in finding such tools, and would appreciate any and all help and suggestions for other approaches.
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>A.) For the FTP/TELNET client you are looking for, I do not know if you have
>tried the WWIPstuff dll libraries. You can create your own Visual tool from
>scratch.
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>B.) For the data format from the Linux box, you may want to have it in fixed
>length format with a ending carriage return at the end, that way you can
>import it into a Fox table and then whatever you want with it. If you C or VB
>you may want to create a little prog that will do that for you.
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>C) for the first one I only have one question where does Linux keep that
>kind of info, does it have a filename attached with every user, everytime
>they log in? or it is something else?
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>mark oliva