> After entering a new user and activating it in ELOG, the new user receives an email.
> The link does not work because the port number is repeated in the link (see below)
> In the Global part of the elogd.ini we have added the port:
> port = 8080
> 
> Maybe I am overlooking something, any suggestions are very much appreciated!
> 
> Thanks!
> Ron
> 
> - - - - - -
> 
> Email Subject: Your ELOG account has been activated
> 
> Email Body:
> 
> Your ELOG account has been activated on host eloghost:8080.
> 
> You can access it at http://eloghost:8080:8080/logbookname/?unm=newuser.
> 
> To subscribe to any logbook, click on 'Config' in that logbook.

I just tried myself and got:



Your ELOG account has been activated on host localhost:8080.

You can access it at http://localhost:8080/Demo/?unm=midas.

To subscribe to any logbook, click on 'Config' in that logbook.



I used following config:

[global]
Port = 8080
Password file = passwd
SMTP host = xxx
Self register = 3
Admin user = stefan
 
[Demo]
Attributes = Type, Subject, Author


So something in your config file must be different. Can you find out what it is?

/Stefan

This is a good idea, but not implemented. I will put this on the wishlist.

/Stefan 

> The instructions for securing elogd using an SSL proxy are incomplete.
> http://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#secure
> http://midas.psi.ch/elogs/contributions/11
> 
> If you follow these instructions, elogd will still listen for and accept non-SSL connections on it's own TCP port bypassing the SSL proxy.
> 
> (True, the elogd TCP port number is somewhat secret, so there is some security-by-obscurity here).
> 
> To secure the elogd TCP port against connections that bypass the SSL proxy, elogd has to be started
> with the "-n localhost" command line options.
> 
> To add this option, one has to edit /etc/init.d/elogd. I do not know if this change will be lost when the elog rpm package is updated.
> 
> It would be better if this option could have been specified through elogd.conf.
> 
> The "-n" command line option is not documented here
> http://midas.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html#config
> but is visible if you run "elogd -h".
> 
> P.S. Even with "-n localhost", users of the local machine can bypass the SSL proxy.
> 
> K.O.

I added the option "interface" to the config file. So you could do

[global]
...
interface = localhost


It was not there originally since most people who care about security use a firewall. The firewall (either locally or one another machine), opens only port 443 for the secure connection and 
not the non-secure one (typically 80 or 8080). This way this has not been an issue in the past. As you guessed correctly the -n option would be overwritten by an rpm package update, so 
that's why I added the "interface" option.

Yes the credentials are stored in the form where you enter your text. This has following reason: In a shared environment (several people sitting around a computer) we want to identify who submits an elog entry, but not bother the person to enter his/her password every few minutes. So in our experiment I set the time-out to 15 min, meaning after 15 minutes of inactivity a user gets logged out. If the user accesses ELOG every ten minutes or so, he/she stays logged in for a whole shift, which is what you want. Now the problem is that one starts an elog entry, waits twenty minutes, then wants to submit it, but you are bought back to the login screen and your entry is gone. Therefore I store the credentials (encrypted) in the form, so that the form can even be submitted after 20 minutes. Users at our lab are pretty happy with this solution.

In fact there is no way you can 100% ensure that the logged in user submits an entry without asking for his/her password during the submit. Even if the time span above is only very short, it still can happen that someone starts an entry, leaves the room, and someone else submits it. So people got used to the good practice not to leave any unfinished elog entry open when they go or leave the browser (to another tab for example). If I would implement to password request during the submit, there would be two problems: 1) Users will heavily complain and 2) I have to store the form data temporary (together with some optional attachments) on the server side, start a password query, and only if that succeeds submit the entry. This is somehow complicated to implement since I cannot use the normal elog database. Then I have to care about dangling entries (like if the password was wrong I should delete the temporary data???) and so on.

I plan for the future a kind of "draft" mode, where entries can be stored as "drafts" (like in most email systems). You get an auto-save every few minutes, and can work on the draft before actually submitting it. In that case your password query could be implemented more easily. But implementing the draft mode needs a change of the database system, so I have to find time to do that.

Best regards,

Stefan 

Not much. ELOG uses plain SMTP to port 25, but does not support TLS internally. From your error messages above it looks like exim4 (which I never used) uses a different authentication scheme than ELOG supports. ELOG dos a "AUTH LOGIN" which is described for example here:

http://www.fehcom.de/qmail/smtpauth.html

Maybe you can try authentication completely off (remove "SMTP username" from elogd.cfg) ?

/Stefan

Actually I would not worry with the 042313a.log files. In a future version of elog they might be replaced by a database or so. I see two options:

1. Add an attribute of date/time type. You do that with "Type <attribute> = datetime". Then you can assign a certain date or time to each entry you do. That means you can tag an entry with the date of yesterday or so. If you make that date then the main database key (via "List display") it basically replaces your "internal" date.
2. You can do automatic entries with the "elog" utility coming with the distribution and described here. This you can even run from a cron job. If you submit a new entry from elog, you get automatically the incremented IDs etc. You can use some default values for the attributes, which you can change later.

Sure, its YYMMDDa.log, I was wrong. That format has been chosen so that the normal (ASCII-) sorting shows the files in proper order.

You can leave the password just blank.

The "Allow password change = 1" does not make any difference. It works here even with this option.

So I have no idea why you have that problem. Does it work on another computer, i.e. is it related to the 64 bit VM machine?

Best regards,
Stefan