I see only Save Back Change Password Remove User in Config Menu.

How can I create a New User?

[global]
Port=8880
SSL=1
;Self register = 1
Password file = passwd
admin user = kuku
SMTP host = smtp.mydomain

[Demo]

Attributes = Author, Status

The documentation is mentioning a Config Menu and a New User item there.

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Christoph

 Thanks. You see in the elogd.cfg above that there is

admin user = kuku

 Aaah, case sensitive ! !

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Christoph

Is it possible to have many roots with one elogd (or run several elogds), such that you can seaparate different groups or themes from each other:

electronics

       trigger

       power

mechanics

       detector

       support

Thanks.

Christoph

 Thanks. I got it working so far. One minor glitch:

I have one topgroup (with 2 subgroups),

  electronics

       trigger

       power

and onother topgroup (only 1 subgroup)

 mechanics

   detector

When I get the login screen for the second (with the only one subgroup) it says in the header:

   "Several logbooks are defined on this host. Please select the one to connect to:"

and below only the one group (detector)  is shown, so actually nothing to select.

This may be possibly achieved by not defining a subgroup for the second one and leaving it as a topgroup,

but I don't know how it behaves, when the group admin decides to create a subgroup. Can he do

without requiring superuser or elog permissions?

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Christoph

Hi Christian,

 I have also the need to do auth on the webserver, but  I tried to integrate it into elogd as far as I could.

However, I do not try to set a special cookie to set the username, but always use 
 "X-Forwarded-User".  Like this, every request is authenticated by the webserver in front.

If that's not too heavy for you, try out the applied patch.

HTH,

Christof

PS:

@Stefan:

If you are willing to integrate this into the official tree, 

I can provide some docs for it (like setting author 

directly etc.)

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 <Location /elog/admin>

        Use PhysLDAP

        Use RequirePhysLDAPGroup isg


        RewriteEngine On

        RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)

        RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1]

        RequestHeader add X-Forwarded-User %{RU}e

</Location>

   /* extract REMOTE_USER */

   if ((p = strstr(request, "X-Forwarded-User:")) != NULL) {

      p += 17;

      while (*p && *p == ' ')

         p++;

      strlcpy(remote_user, p, sizeof(remote_user));

      if (strchr(remote_user, '\r'))

         *strchr(remote_user, '\r') = 0;


         char sid[32];

         /* get a new session ID */

         sid_new(NULL, remote_user, (char *) inet_ntoa(rem_addr), sid);


         /* set SID cookie */

         set_sid_cookie(NULL, sid);

         // TODO: set lbs!

   }

set_cookie (lbs=0x0, name=0x483b22 "sid", value=0x7ffffffd7590 "4831386B7B333A99", 
global=0, expiration=0x7ffffffd7300 "")

Hi Stefan,

I am happy to see that you include the webserver authentication.
So I can now login at some other page and then access elog.
However, I would also need some means of logging out some where else.

For this I propose a new Configuration option "Logout to page" which redirects to another page if set and "Logout to main" is 0.

See the attached patch (against git HEAD)

Does this make sense to you ?

Christof

PS: Many thanks for the autosave mode,  I already used it ;-)
 

Hi Stefan,

here is a draft of how you could describe the webserver authentication in your docs.

T/Christof