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    icon2.gif   Re: read-only elog server, posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Oct 23 16:15:06 2023 

Use

Menu commands = List, Find, Help

to remove all command which let you create or edit entries (New, Reply, Edit, ...) 

Then do the same with "List menu commands = ..."

/Stefan

Germano Massullo wrote:

Good day. I am writing this post to ask how I can turn an elog website into a read-only version that will stay online for historical documention purposes.

I tried to search on Elog documentation but I had no success

Thank you and have a nice day

 

icon5.gif   Cannot send Emails, posted by John on Mon Oct 23 20:35:54 2023 

Hello, my sending of emails was working a while back but I have not checked on it in a few months and found out I am getting authentication errors sending to my MTA (mailer). I was using a base64 to encode the pw but now my mailer (gandi.net) rejects it. Has anything changed over the last couple of years with Elogs code that would be affecting this? I just upgraded (Linux) and changed my testing grounds to non-production and the same problem exists. Thing is I CAN send using other programs, but not with Elog. It is impertive I figure this out or have a work around.. but a 'work around' does not seem like a possible  task since all the work (forums and such) will be via my Elog server.

Thanx, John

    icon2.gif   Re: Cannot send Emails, posted by Stefan Ritt on Tue Oct 24 08:12:38 2023 

ELOG has not change in the last years in that respect, but I know that mailer get more and more picky about encryption etc. So you probably have to convince your mailer to accept the pw as it comes from ELOG, or do not require a pw for that specific client.

Stefan

John wrote:

Hello, my sending of emails was working a while back but I have not checked on it in a few months and found out I am getting authentication errors sending to my MTA (mailer). I was using a base64 to encode the pw but now my mailer (gandi.net) rejects it. Has anything changed over the last couple of years with Elogs code that would be affecting this? I just upgraded (Linux) and changed my testing grounds to non-production and the same problem exists. Thing is I CAN send using other programs, but not with Elog. It is impertive I figure this out or have a work around.. but a 'work around' does not seem like a possible  task since all the work (forums and such) will be via my Elog server.

Thanx, John

 

    icon2.gif   Re: Restricting entries view by user, posted by Matteo Mannini on Tue Nov 7 22:07:24 2023 

Dear Stefan,

thanks to the answer you gave to my colleague. 

Now, attempting to follow your suggestion... If we will create several logbooks, one for each user,

1) there is a way to automatically duplicate all the entries in anoter "global" elog without loosing them and keeping them updated between the global and the individual logbooks? 

2) alternatively how I could activate a search in all these user logbooks (and only in this set of logbooks without searching in the others logbook present in the same file conf)? shall I gnereate a separated elog instance only for this set of logbooks? how to let this search to all option available only to a reduced number of "superusers" that are not "administrators?

thanks

 

Matteo

Stefan Ritt wrote:

No, this is not possible with the current version of Elog, so indeed everybody needs their own logbook.

Stefan

Leonardo Tacconi wrote:

Good morning,

I would like to ask you whether it is feasible to establish a logbook that limits access to entries, enabling each user to view only their own.
Although creating a logbook per user is an apparent solution, it does not meet my requirements.

Thank you in advance.

Leonardo

 

 

    icon2.gif   Re: Restricting entries view by user, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Nov 30 14:28:12 2023 

Keeping the global and individual logbooks in sync is not possible. So indded my proposal is a cumbersome solution in your case. We do have "restrict edit" which lets users only edit their own entries, but we do not have "restrict view". Maye some thought for a future version of elog.

Stefan

Matteo Mannini wrote:

Dear Stefan,

thanks to the answer you gave to my colleague. 

Now, attempting to follow your suggestion... If we will create several logbooks, one for each user,

1) there is a way to automatically duplicate all the entries in anoter "global" elog without loosing them and keeping them updated between the global and the individual logbooks? 

2) alternatively how I could activate a search in all these user logbooks (and only in this set of logbooks without searching in the others logbook present in the same file conf)? shall I gnereate a separated elog instance only for this set of logbooks? how to let this search to all option available only to a reduced number of "superusers" that are not "administrators?

thanks

 

Matteo

Stefan Ritt wrote:

No, this is not possible with the current version of Elog, so indeed everybody needs their own logbook.

Stefan

Leonardo Tacconi wrote:

Good morning,

I would like to ask you whether it is feasible to establish a logbook that limits access to entries, enabling each user to view only their own.
Although creating a logbook per user is an apparent solution, it does not meet my requirements.

Thank you in advance.

Leonardo

 

 

 

icon5.gif   user change under webserver authentication not recognized, posted by Frank Heyroth on Fri Jan 19 15:49:13 2024 

Hi all,

I am using the Apache webserver authentication and redirection over http (not https). I have configured it 1:1 as described in the Adminguide. In the elog.cfg I set Authentication = Webserver.

All works fine; the webserver requests an authentication and elog recognizes me correctly.
However, when I close and reopen the browser and log in as a different user, elog does not change the user (tested with Firefox and Edge).
I can only change the user if I use a different browser or restart the elogd (reload is not enough).
The X-Forwarded-User header is set to the correct username - I have checked it with a CustomLog in Apache.

Best regards,
Frank

icon5.gif   How to not expose elog port when running under a reverse proxy, posted by Nicola on Mon Jan 22 08:22:33 2024 

I am running elog under Apache as explained in the administrator's guide. Everything works fine, butmy IT service complains about the elog port being publicly exposed, so I have to fix this. As far as I understand when running under a reverse proxy there's no need for the port to be publiuclyexposed, but I cannot find how to configure the elog server to expose it only locally

    icon2.gif   Re: How to not expose elog port when running under a reverse proxy, posted by Frank Heyroth on Mon Jan 22 20:50:50 2024 

Hi,
as I understand right you can do this in the elogd.cfg via
Interface = 127.0.0.1
port = 8080

however than this can be changed by any user how has global admin rights in elog.

So I changed the line in the elogd.service startscript
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/elogd -D -p 8080 -n 127.0.0.1  -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg

I hope this has the priority (not tested).

 

Nicola wrote:

I am running elog under Apache as explained in the administrator's guide. Everything works fine, butmy IT service complains about the elog port being publicly exposed, so I have to fix this. As far as I understand when running under a reverse proxy there's no need for the port to be publiuclyexposed, but I cannot find how to configure the elog server to expose it only locally

 

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