what is the default value for "Author" when replying to a log entry ?  I now see that for each reply to a log entry, the value of "Author" is set to the value of the author of the original entry - this makes it very hard to see which user has replied to a particular log entry, especially when users start replying to replies etc.

This is with elog 3.1.4-3 on CentOS 7

Herrenhemden in St. Gallen
Titel: Finden Sie das beste Herrenhemd für den Büroalltag bei brandmarkt in St. Gallen
Wenn es darum geht, sich für die Arbeit zu kleiden, ist es am besten, eine Vielzahl von zuverlässigen Büromodellen zur Verfügung zu haben. Von allen Kleidungsstücken, die zur Auswahl stehen, sind Herrenhemden für das Büro das attraktivste Kleidungsstück für Berufstätige.
Berufstätige Männer wollen immer gut in ihre Bürokleidung investieren. Die günstigste Herren-Business-Kleidung zu kaufen, ist sehr schwierig.
Möchten Sie die originellen und stilvollen Herrenhemden für die Bürobekleidung in St. Gallen kaufen?
 Bei 9000 in St. Gallen hat Brandmarkt eine Vielzahl von Herrenhemden für die Bürobekleidung. Langärmelige Herrenhemden für den Arbeitsplatz, kurzärmelige Herrenhemden in aktuellen Modetrends sind zu günstigen Preisen erhältlich.
Berufstätige Männer wollen immer stilvoll und bequem aussehen, indem sie leichte Kleidung wie T-Shirts oder kurzärmelige Herren-Arbeitshemden tragen. Sie können ein kurzärmeliges T-Shirt mit einer Jeans oder einer Hose tragen und sind damit bei einem Meeting präsentabel.
Kleiden Sie sich im Sommer mit der bequemsten und stilvollsten Herren-Bürokleidung für das Büro. Herrenhemden für das Büro in hellen Farben sind die perfekte Kleidung für den Sommer. Herrenhemden für den Sommerlook gibt es bei Brandmarkt zu günstigen Preisen.  
Geschäftsleute wollen immer Klasse in ihrem Auftreten mit der aktuellsten Herren-Business-Mode. Meistens werden für die Bürokleidung der Herren Anzüge getragen. Passende Hemden zum Anzug sorgen für Abwechslung im Erscheinungsbild.
 
Bei Brandmarkt in St. Gallen können Sie Marken-Herrenhemden in verschiedenen Farben, Mustern und Designs zu günstigen Preisen kaufen und mit Ihrem Büroanzug kombinieren.
Viele Büros planen verschiedene Tage wie den "Causal Wear Friday" für ihre Mitarbeiter. Es ist Zeit, sich in Freizeitkleidung zu kleiden. Sie können ein Hemd oder T-Shirt mit Jeans tragen. Passende Herren-Accessoires wie Gürtel und Krawatten können Ihren Look ebenfalls aufwerten.
Holen Sie sich die exklusiven Herrenhemden bei Brandmarkt zu den günstigsten Preisen. Sie können die Top-Marken wie Ice Peak bei Brandmarkt, Jako bei Brandmarkt, Tom Taylor bei Brandmarkt, Puma bei Brandmarkt, Nike bei Brandmarkt und viele andere zu einem sehr günstigen Preis bei Brandmarkt in St. Gallen kaufen.
Nicht nur die Hemdenkollektion, sondern auch Herrenschuhe und Herrenaccessoires können Sie bei Brandmarkt in St. Gallen zu sehr günstigen Preisen kaufen.
Unternehmen veranstalten für ihre Mitarbeiter meist Sportveranstaltungen. Es ist an der Zeit, dass die Angestellten ein anderes Outfit als den Dresscode des Büros tragen. Herren-Sportbekleidung Hemden sind die beste Option für Sportveranstaltungen.
Jetzt können Sie sich für das Büro anders stylen als mit einem Anzug, einem Hemd oder einem T-Shirt. Tragen Sie ein schmal geschnittenes, langärmeliges Herren-Sporthemd mit Jogginghose und machen Sie bei Sportveranstaltungen im Büro eine gute Figur.
Für informelle Tage wünscht sich jeder Mitarbeiter einen besonderen Look. Wenn Sie auf der Suche nach Sportbekleidung, Herrenhemden in Slim Fit, Regular Fit, Herren Outdoor Hemden sind. Holen Sie sich diese im Brandmarkt in St. Gallen.
Dort gibt es exklusive Marken von Herren Sporthemden in St. Gallen zu sehr günstigen Preisen. Zu günstigen Preisen, nicht nur das Herren Sporthemd sondern auch die Marken Herren Sportschuhe zu Ihrem Outfit.
 
Wo kann man in St. Gallen günstige Herren-Bürohemden zu günstigen Preisen kaufen?
Unser Modehaus Brandmarkt an der 9000 in St. Gallen hat originelle und hochwertige Herrenhemden in St. Gallen, darunter eine große Auswahl an langärmeligen Herren-Arbeitshemden, kurzärmeligen Herren-Arbeitshemden, Slim-Fit-Hemden und Sporthemden, alles zu sehr günstigen Preisen.
 
Worauf warten Sie noch? Kommen Sie zu Brandmarkt in St. Gallen und kaufen Sie die beste Qualität an Herrenhemden in St. Gallen für Ihre Bürokleidung zu Einzelhandelspreisen. Sparen Sie Ihr Geld und sehen Sie professionell aus.

Update : i tryed with last git, w/o ldap support and it seems the problem is solved with CCS URL on same machine (just replace the elogd binary from EPEL by new one just build w/o LDAP support and fallback on File to login for testing).

So my problem is the error during build with LDAP auth (since using C++) :-(

...

+ cd elog-3-14
+ make USE_SSL=1 USE_LDAP=1 USE_KRB5=1 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml'
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -c -o mxml.o mxml/mxml.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -c -o strlcpy.o mxml/strlcpy.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lkrb5 -lldap -llber
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_KRB5 -DHAVE_LDAP -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int auth_verify_password_ldap(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:283:60: error: 'ldap_simple_bind_s' was not declared in this scope
    bind = ldap_simple_bind_s(ldap_ld, ldap_bindDN, password);
                                                            ^
src/auth.cxx:290:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:295:23: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
    ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                       ^
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int ldap_adduser_file(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:323:60: error: 'ldap_simple_bind_s' was not declared in this scope
    bind = ldap_simple_bind_s(ldap_ld, ldap_bindDN, password);
                                                            ^
src/auth.cxx:330:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:358:26: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
       ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                          ^
src/auth.cxx:369:62: error: 'ldap_get_values' was not declared in this scope
          if((values = ldap_get_values(ldap_ld,entry,attribute)) != NULL ) {
                                                              ^
src/auth.cxx:378:35: error: 'ldap_value_free' was not declared in this scope
             ldap_value_free(values);
                                   ^
src/auth.cxx:386:23: error: 'ldap_unbind' was not declared in this scope
    ldap_unbind(ldap_ld);
                       ^
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int auth_verify_password(LOGBOOK*, const char*, const char*, char*, int)':
src/auth.cxx:593:73: error: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' [-fpermissive]
          if (get_user_line(lbs, user, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) == 2) {
                                                                         ^
In file included from src/auth.cxx:30:0:
src/elogd.h:282:5: error:   initializing argument 2 of 'int get_user_line(LOGBOOK*, char*, char*, char*, char*, BOOL*, time_t*, int*)' [-fpermissive]
 int get_user_line(LOGBOOK * lbs, char *user, char *password, char *full_name, char *email,
     ^
make: *** [auth.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /home/il/jeanrigaudl/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.cKJL45 (%build)

Updated :

1. from google (https://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-technical/201104/msg00030.html), it seems it's necessary to add before "#include ldap.h" in src/auth.cxx

#define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1

2. A cast must be added to src/auth.cxx:593 as already done somewhere with C++ commit :

         if (get_user_line(lbs, (char *) user, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL) == 2) {
 

-> elogd builds now with ldap :-) .

I installed elogd binary and i could login and the css url problem is gone.

Thanks to update auth.cxx (2 mods) and buildrpm (2 mods) in git (sorry, no pull request).

NB : PAM can not be activated under EL7 with same type of error. I disabled the feature as i do not use it.

+ cd elog-3-14
+ make USE_SSL=1 USE_PAM=1 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml'
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -c -o mxml.o mxml/mxml.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -w -c -o crypt.o src/crypt.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -c -o strlcpy.o mxml/strlcpy.cxx
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -o elog src/elog.cxx mxml.o crypt.o strlcpy.o -lssl -lpam -llber
c++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic -O3 -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -W -Wall -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unused-result -Imxml -DHAVE_SSL -DHAVE_PAM -w -c -o auth.o src/auth.cxx
src/auth.cxx: In function 'int elog_conv(int, const pam_message**, pam_response**, void*)':
src/auth.cxx:452:59: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'pam_response*' [-fpermissive]
    if((*resp = calloc(num_msg, sizeof(struct pam_response))) == NULL)
                                                           ^
src/auth.cxx:457:33: error: invalid conversion from 'void*' to 'const char*' [-fpermissive]
    if(!(resptok = strdup(my_data))) {
                                 ^
In file included from src/elogd.h:46:0,
                 from src/auth.cxx:30:
/usr/include/string.h:172:14: error:   initializing argument 1 of 'char* strdup(const char*)' [-fpermissive]
 extern char *strdup (const char *__s)
              ^
make: *** [auth.o] Error 1
error: Bad exit status from /home/il/jeanrigaudl/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.V2LE4L (%build)
 

Atrributes can only be defined once in a logbook.
But you can select which attributes are shown with the commands:

• Show Attributes = <list>
  Attributes present in this list are shown in the single entry page. Omitting attributes can make sense for attributes which are automatically derived from other attributes via the Change <attribute> command.
• Show Attributes Edit = <list>
  The same as Show Attributes, but for the entry form.

Those can be redifined in conditional attribute clauses.

(See https://elog.psi.ch/elog/config.html)

The section of the ELOG Administrator's Guide https://elog.psi.ch/elog/adminguide.html describing how to build and install ELOG on a Mac OS X system has worked well for me for several years, even though there have been warnings that the "load" and "unload" subcommands of the "launchctl" command have been deprecated for some time.  After trying my luck again on a new Mac with the latest operating system, I encountered errors of the type "Load failed: 5: Input/output error" when attempting to follow these instructions.

After a bit of searching around, I used information at the page https://www.alansiu.net/2023/11/15/launchctl-new-subcommand-basics-for-macos/ to deploy the more current subcommands as follows:

sudo launchctl enable system/ch.psi.elogd
sudo launchctl bootstrap system /Library/LaunchDaemons/ch.psi.elogd.plist 

sudo launchctl disable system/ch.psi.elogd

Once the above can be verified, perhaps the instructions in the Administrator's Guide can be updated accordingly.

When using the Webserver authentication in combination with "File" and "Self register = 3", it is possible to keep track of registrations and control access still. This is very useful, and upon clicking on the logbook for the first time, the user is asked to register by typing their username, full name and email address.

First issue here is that they can still edit the box with their username, which might cause confusion if somebody decides to choose a different username and is then surprised about why they cannot automatically login again. Is it possible to lock this field from being edited?

The second issue is more minor, but the user has to manually type their name and email address, even though the webserver may already be able to provide this information in the headers. Specifically, it would be useful to read the name from the X-Forwarded-Name header and email address from the X-Forwarded-Email header. 

My config file snippet is below:

Authentication = Webserver, File
allow password change = 0
Password file = webserver.passwords
Self register    = 3
 

I noticed a long url got hard-wrapped when I entered a long one, I patched 
the source code. I don't know if this was done intentionally, otherwise you 
might want to change this also.

diff elogd.c elogd.c.org 
4468c4468
<     rsprintf("<textarea rows=20 cols=%d wrap=soft name=Text>", width);
---
>     rsprintf("<textarea rows=20 cols=%d wrap=hard name=Text>", width);

BTW, why is the editor window 20 rows by 76 columns ?
(20 is fixed in the source code, but 76 is the width-variable that is set 
hard to:

  /* set textarea width */
  width = 76;

Now I don't like both parameters. 20 is too long for my display (1024x768) 
and 76 is too short. Something dynamically would be cool, but a parameter 
somewhere in a config file would also be acceptable. (just a thought, makes 
it easier to upgrade)

When I make a new entry I get an email with 

   subject: New ELOG entry

But when I or someone else changes an entry I also get an email with a 

   subject: New ELOG entry

I would prefer to see "Changed" , "Edited", or "Updated". This is beyond my 
programming capabilities so I enter this request.