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icon5.gif   Mail and logged in user , posted by Arno Teunisse on Sun May 10 22:18:56 2009 
    icon2.gif   Re: Mail and logged in user , posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon May 18 12:28:00 2009 
       icon2.gif   Re: Mail and logged in user , posted by Arno Teunisse on Tue May 19 23:43:20 2009 
Message ID: 66363     Entry time: Mon May 18 12:28:00 2009     In reply to: 66359     Reply to this: 66365
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Windows  ELOG Version: 2.7.6-2191 
Subject: Re: Mail and logged in user  

 

Arno Teunisse wrote:

Hello

Was playing with elog. I send mail to the persons involved with a elog entrie. This mail produces something like this ( rather default) .

 Logbook: Accelerator  Message ID: 4    Entry time: 05/10/09 21:48:25     In reply to: 3

When I am logged in into elog , clicking on the Message ID 4 or 3 from the mail client , elog is started with the logged in user at that time and it's permissions.  So instead of starting a new elog session ( and getting the guest permission ) I get the permission of the currently logged in user.( Could be the administrator / root) . The process will function correctly i no one is logged in into elog. I've tested this on a local machine, so I cannot say if the same happens when multiple  machines are used. So, maybe it's a bug, maybe it's my testing  configuration. 

Do not know if i explained  the problem clear enough, but is seems something that could be examined.

By the way : thanks for this great and free program. 

 

This is not a bug, this is a feature! Once you log in to ELOG, your credentials are stored in cookies of your local browser. If you access a logbook entry, like via the link you in your email, you still use that credentials. If you clear all cookies of your browser, or log out explicitly from ELOG, then of course you will only get guest access. 

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