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  66671   Tue Jan 12 12:31:20 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug reportLinuxrev2280Re: Problem with CRYPT+SSL and elog command line entries

I Aaron Couture wrote:

I have attached a possible patch--basically pirated from elogd.c  Because strlcpy needed for the crypt cares about size, do_crypt needed the size, which had not been a concern for base64_encode in elog.c   As a result, base64_encode changed slightly as well.  I think the implementation places a limit of 32 characters on passwords, which seemed to already be the limit in elogd.c  The elog.c limit appeared to be 80 characters.  I tested both SSL and SSL+CRYPT for commandline elog entries with both a logbook specific write password as well as username/password combo in a password file.

Great! Thanks a lot for your patch. I appreciate if people not only come up with problems, but have already the solution. I committed your patch to the distribution, so it will be included in the next version.

- Stefan

  66670   Tue Jan 12 09:12:28 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequestWindows2.7.8-2280Re: Collapse to Last and Quick Filter
> Hello,
>    I feel that the filter result could be confusing and unexpected when "COLLAPSE TO LAST" is enabled: you 
> filter the first entry but you show the last one. What is filtered doesn't correspond with what is shown (look 
> the attached example). 
> 
> I suggest to implement an option to let the user decide which entry (first or last) should be retrieved for 
> filtering (a tentative patch is attached).
> 
> Thank you 
> 
>     Gabriele
> 
> P.S. A similar behaviour occurs when you sort the logbook: it could appear as not sorted because you sort the 
> first entry but the last one is shown.

You are absolutely right. When doing filtering, entries shown or not shown have not much to do with the filter. 
Rather than messing around with first and last entries, I decided to break apart threads completely when doing 
filtering, so the entries are treated as individual entries, just like what you do when filtering in summary mode. 
This gives then consistent filtering results. The modification is done in revision 2282.
  66669   Mon Jan 11 17:10:31 2010 Reply David PilgramDavid.Pilgram@epost.org.ukQuestionLinux2.7.8Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?
> > > > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > > > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > > > already onscreen.
> > > 
> > > This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> > > There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> > > into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> > > 
> > > http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> > > 
> > > for example.
> > 
> > Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
> > I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  
> 
> I'm not sure, but I doubt that it would work under Linux. It's a general security issue: If your browser has free access to 
> your clipboard, then what happens if you for example copy-and-paste a password in some application, then forget your password 
> in the clipboard, then you surf to a malicious website, and a script on that site grabs your clipboard contents? This would 
> be a severe security hole on ANY operating system.

Hi there,

In a linux installation straight out of the box, I can cut-and-paste text from the mailer program (a stand-alone one called
XCmail), from an xterm or similar into elog with no trouble.  I've not tried an image, I just attach them as I use plain encoding.
 Don't know how it would work if it were on a properly secure linux box.
  66668   Mon Jan 11 16:46:39 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2.7.8Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?
> > > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > > already onscreen.
> > 
> > This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> > There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> > into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> > 
> > http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> > 
> > for example.
> 
> Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
> I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  

I'm not sure, but I doubt that it would work under Linux. It's a general security issue: If your browser has free access to 
your clipboard, then what happens if you for example copy-and-paste a password in some application, then forget your password 
in the clipboard, then you surf to a malicious website, and a script on that site grabs your clipboard contents? This would 
be a severe security hole on ANY operating system.
  66667   Mon Jan 11 16:44:23 2010 Reply Erik Iversoneiverson@ornl.govQuestionAll2.7.8Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?
> > Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> > for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> > already onscreen.
> 
> This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
> There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
> into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at
> 
> http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188
> 
> for example.

Hmmm.  Well, does that mean that it is easier under Linux?  I have to confess I couldn't figure that out either.  But
I'd be delighted to have Yet Another Reason to tell the users that "it works under Linux, maybe you should switch...."  
  66666   Mon Jan 11 10:41:25 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionAll2.7.8Re: Any way to paste clipboard into entry?
> Is there any way to directly paste an image from a Windows clipboard into an elog entry page?  It's obvious
> for uploading a file, but many of my users say that they never make a file, they just want to paste in an image
> already onscreen.

This is a limitation of the FCKEditor used inside ELOG, and actually of the whole browser concept under Windows. 
There are some extensions to Firefox which let your paste an image as an attachment, but none for doing this right 
into the text body. For some discussion about this have a look at

http://forums.developer.mindtouch.com/showthread.php?t=188

for example.
  66665   Mon Jan 11 10:00:14 2010 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chQuestionWindows2.7.7-2246Re: Each day new logbookfile

Ben Weyn wrote:

I have installed Elog in a Windows-environment. It's working fine, but i get a new logbookfile each day. Is it possible to have all entries in 1 logbookfile?

No. The standard database engine inside ELOG works this way. It allows you to backup then every month or year easily just on the file system by copying all 10????a.log files for example. If you would have just one file (which could become very large), there is no easy way to do that. 

  66664   Mon Jan 11 09:55:52 2010 Question Ben Weynben.weyn@vanderlande.comQuestionWindows2.7.7-2246Each day new logbookfile

I have installed Elog in a Windows-environment. It's working fine, but i get a new logbookfile each day. Is it possible to have all entries in 1 logbookfile?

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