Why Universal Admin-

If you are a web administrator, you have surely felt the need to access your server when away from office, some time or the other. The only tool that can be assumed to be universally available is the Web-browser -no telnet or FTP. Fortunately, if you happen to be using UNIX and JSP as your server platform, Universal Admin is for you.

Sometimes, your web hosting package comes with only FTP access (in shared servers, for example). You know you could really use a Shell prompt to do a lot of things faster. If you have found yourself in this situation, consider Universal Admin.

Universal Admin Features-

1. Gives you the shell (or a chosen program) prompt right within your browser.
2. Allows you to upload files.
3. Logon authentication
4. You can configure any number of users and assign them different shells. For instance, you can define a Database administrator who gets the Database prompt (SQL*plus or Mysql) directly. Of course, you can use the /bin/sh for file management and process control. The file upload feature can be individually enabled for each user.
5. Displays stdout and stderr in different frames.
6. Keeps command history.

1. The shell and other programs run as the same UNIX user as the owner of the Java Server on the host.
2. Sometimes if the shell command's output is slow, the control may return without the whole output. You should send an empty command to flush the output from the server.
3. Commands that require tty input cannot be run.
4. For File upload operations, the use of Jspsmartupload package is required (included in Universal Admin zip).

Universal Admin is shareware. You are welcome to download and try it for free. However, if you find it good enough to use it for any purpose -personal, commercial or non-commercial, a nominal contribution of US$ 27.00 is expected.

In exchange for your contribution, I would entertain support requests from you.

Updated: October 2002.
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