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  236   Tue Feb 25 22:18:57 2003 Cool Aamir Khanaamir@aamir.uk.comComment  Security (passwords over web browser)
Stefan - Just to say that this is an excellent piece of work well done.

I have just started an internal company Elog server, couple of 
clarifications :

1) is there a way around seeing the password in text when self regestering, 
if I turn this option off when the user changes his password will this 
password still be seen?

2) I have changed all the files to be owned on my RedHat Server by the 
user:group as elog:elog and set and moved the logbooks to another directory 
other than in /usr/local/elog namely /home/elog/logbooks, my concern is is 
I was to upgrade to a newer version would it be a simple install over the 
top? any caveats?

thanks again an absolute dream program.

kind regards Aamir
  237   Tue Feb 25 22:35:44 2003 Question Aamir Khanaamir@aamir.uk.comRequest  elogd.cfg
Stefan and friends,

without breaching your own security, could it be possible to see what the 
elogd.cfg file looks like, also if others would like to post theirs, this 
would be great in building exmaples etc, obviosly an security related or 
mail server entries hashed out.

I am a tad new at this stuff, but eventually would try my hand at getting 
hold of the source code and compiling on AIX and then intergrating into 
shell and error reporting. - OK .. a bit in the furture anyway, if someone 
has already done this please post.

kind regards Aamir
  238   Wed Feb 26 10:13:10 2003 Idea Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chRequest  Re: elogd.cfg
> Stefan and friends,
> 
> without breaching your own security, could it be possible to see what the 
> elogd.cfg file looks like, also if others would like to post theirs, this 
> would be great in building exmaples etc, obviosly an security related or 
> mail server entries hashed out.

Ok, good idea. I made a new logbook "Config Examples" on this server, where 
everybody can add new configuration examples. I added a few covering the 
logbooks on this server as a starting point. Just click on "Config Examples" 
at the top of this page!
  239   Wed Feb 26 10:34:12 2003 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chComment  Re: Security (passwords over web browser)
> Stefan - Just to say that this is an excellent piece of work well done.

Thanks.
 
> 1) is there a way around seeing the password in text when self 
regestering, 
> if I turn this option off when the user changes his password will this 
> password still be seen?

Where did you see the password? Was it on this logbook or on your own? Did 
you use "self register" equal 3 or 2? The password should never be visible 
in plain text, so after you submit it (during registration or login), the 
page gets immediately redirected since the password is contained in the 
URL. After the redirection, it is not visible any more. Now it might happen 
that the redirection takes a few seconds, depending on the network speed, 
then you see it for this few seconds. But in an intranet installation, this 
should not happen.

> 2) I have changed all the files to be owned on my RedHat Server by the 
> user:group as elog:elog and set and moved the logbooks to another 
directory 
> other than in /usr/local/elog namely /home/elog/logbooks, my concern is 
is 
> I was to upgrade to a newer version would it be a simple install over the 
> top? any caveats?

Yes, if you upgrade, the new version will again to into /usr/local/elog 
unless you tell "rpm" to relocate the package. Unfortunately I'm not a 
specialist with "rpm", but you might figure it out yourself (just try to 
reinstall the same version and look where the files go wiht "rpm -ql elog").
  240   Thu Feb 27 10:53:09 2003 Reply Etienne Van Caillieetienne.vancaillie@mba.beRequest  Re: elogd.cfg
> Stefan and friends,
> 
> without breaching your own security, could it be possible to see what the 
> elogd.cfg file looks like, also if others would like to post theirs, this 
> would be great in building exmaples etc, obviosly an security related or 
> mail server entries hashed out.
> 
> I am a tad new at this stuff, but eventually would try my hand at getting 
> hold of the source code and compiling on AIX and then intergrating into 
> shell and error reporting. - OK .. a bit in the furture anyway, if someone 
> has already done this please post.
> 
> kind regards Aamir

we do recompile a version with ShellOnsubmit and ShellParam
and it works ! actually only on windows
when all test will be finish we'll send the version to Stefan Ritt


Attributes = By, Type, Categorie, Subject, Dossier, Remarks, email1
....
ShellOnSubmit = c:\test\shellTest\Debug\shellTest.exe
ShellParam = /Params %By %Type %Subject %Dossier %Remarks % 
email1 /quietMode "test test"


 
  241   Thu Mar 6 20:37:16 2003 Question Robert Keeneyrkeeney@dfs.state.fl.usBug report  https:// changed to http:// when submit button is clicked
I hope this is not something I did. 

I'm using elog 2.3.1 on redhat 7.1 and using stunnel to redirect from port
443 to 8080. When I try to add a new record (click submit) https:// in the
browser gets changed to http://. I ve tried three browsers all with the same
result. If I go into the address field and change it to https:// after
getting a 404 error it works. The record gets posted.
  242   Thu Mar 6 20:49:31 2003 Question Robert Keeneyrkeeney@dfs.state.fl.usBug report  Re: https:// changed to http:// when submit button is clicked
> I hope this is not something I did. 
> 
> I'm using elog 2.3.1 on redhat 7.1 and using stunnel to redirect from port
> 443 to 8080. When I try to add a new record (click submit) https:// in the
> browser gets changed to http://. I ve tried three browsers all with the same
> result. If I go into the address field and change it to https:// after
> getting a 404 error it works. The record gets posted.

Just an update: It does the same thing when I click the back button
  243   Fri Mar 7 09:39:45 2003 Reply Stefan Rittstefan.ritt@psi.chBug report  Re: https:// changed to http:// when submit button is clicked
> > I'm using elog 2.3.1 on redhat 7.1 and using stunnel to redirect from port
> > 443 to 8080. When I try to add a new record (click submit) https:// in the
> > browser gets changed to http://. I ve tried three browsers all with the 
same
> > result. If I go into the address field and change it to https:// after
> > getting a 404 error it works. The record gets posted.

This is due to a change we had to do in the redirection of the pages. If you 
submit a page, the result is a redirection using the HTTP 
statement "Location: ..." inside the header. While this was a relative link 
in the previous versions, we changed this into an absolute link, which then 
agrees with the standard. But since elgod does not know if it runs 
under "http:" or "https:", you have now to add the line

URL = https://your.server:port

into elogd.cfg. I will add this note into the documentation.

- Stefan
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