[hobbit] New enable/disable tool ready for testing

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Sun May 1 22:10:44 CEST 2005


On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:17:29PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 02:40:58AM +0000, David Gore wrote:
> >
> >>Do you have plans to add back the username like in the maint.pl?  I 
> >>would like to see who is disabling tests.
> >>
> >>conn
> >>
> >>Disabled by: unknown @ some.ip.addr.ess
> >>Reason: WE can't do anything to resolve this issue
> >
> >The default setup puts the enable/disable on a webpage that is
> >password-protected, and it then automatically picks up the username 
> >you used to login.
> 
> I suppose I do not know what you mean.  I didn't disable anything.  I 
> have added a password via Apache for the entire Hobbit site when our 
> security people complained.  I cannot say I have see a password request 
> for this specific page.
> 
> I will add security for the cgi-secure directory as well, if that is 
> what you mean.  It many evoke some complaining about two passwords for 
> hobbit we will see.

As long as you use the same authentication setup for the cgi-secure
directory as for the rest of the Hobbit site, your users should not see
a second password request - the browser sends it automatically.


Henrik




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