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Thu Dec 19 17:46:33 2019 |
 | Jan Christoph Terasa | terasa@physik.uni-kiel.de | Question | Linux | V3.1.4-ba84827 | Re: PAM authentication question | Hi David,
sorry for the delay, I currently am very busy with other important work-related business, I hope I can find some time to look into this during christmas holiday season.
Have nice holidays,
Christoph
| David Wallis wrote: |
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Hi Christoph,
Thanks for looking into this, if you can enable PAM + File, our users would be very happy!
The pam.d issue is probably related to CentOS/Red Hat, since our PAM expert warned me that it might be necessary.
| Jan Christoph Terasa wrote: |
| David Wallis wrote: |
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I'm testing the PAM authentication feature, and have a couple questions, a suggestion, and a comment.
First the comment... it was pretty easy to get working, and is exactly what we need here, so thanks! Our PAM stack here is designed to allow logins with Active Directory, LDAP, or local accounts, so the PAM option preserves all of that.
The suggestion: In order to make it work, I had to add a symbolic link in /etc/pam.d:
elogd -> system-auth
That might be considered for addition to the documentation (this was on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7)
The questions:
- The docs indicate that "Self register" must be set to >= 1, but in the code (elogd.c, line 26453), if the PAM module is enabled, Self register is overriden to 0. The result is that no "register as new user" link is displayed on the login screen. Is that the intent?
- Related... can PAM and File authentication both be enabled? We have some logbooks that are used by both internal people (with an A/D account) and outside collaborators that get local elog accounts. This works with LDAP + File, can it work with PAM?
Thanks in advance!
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David, thank you for reporting on your findings regarding the PAM feature. I will look into the points you mentioned:
0. On my machines (Debian testing and stable) I did not have to add anything to /etc/pam.d, but apparently Debian just uses implicit defaults then, and REHL might insist on using excplicit settings. Adding a hint in the documentation is certainly useful, thank your for the suggestion. Maybe elog should provide a pam.d config file (which can be installed/adapted by package maintainers for various OSes).
1.+2. If I remember correctly, I intentionally disabled registration when using the PAM backend, because users will register using their passwd/LDAP/NIS users, and new users can only be regustered using the appropriate tools for the authentication mechanism used. This might not be correctly reflected in the docs, I will check that. In the light of question 2., I can also re-investigate that policy, so that logins will check against both the elog user database and PAM. Self-registering can then be enabled again, and new registrees will go to the elog database. I will try to bringthe code in line with how LDAP works.
regards,
Christoph
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Thu Dec 19 16:40:10 2019 |
| Devin Bougie | dab66@cornell.edu | Bug report | Linux | Windows | Mac OSX | All | Other | 3.1.4 | Re: text wrapping broken in firefox | As an example, I created this same entry in the demo logbook using Safari. As you can see there, the message is wrapped at the width that I set the text entry box.
https://elog.psi.ch/elogs/Linux+Demo/9
> When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.
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> For example, configure a logbook with:
> Message Width = 76
> Message Height = 20
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> Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines. The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly. The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.
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> We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox. Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly. |
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Thu Dec 19 16:28:06 2019 |
 | Devin Bougie | dab66@cornell.edu | Bug report | Linux | Windows | Mac OSX | All | Other | 3.1.4 | text wrapping broken in firefox | When creating new logbook entries, recent versions of firefox somehow ignore the message width setting.
For example, configure a logbook with:
Message Width = 76
Message Height = 20
Then, create a new plain text entry that contains very long lines. The text entry box is the correct size, but once you hit submit and view the full display of the message, it is not wrapped properly. The summary display is wrapped properly, but not the full display.
We've only found this to be a problem with recent versions of firefox. Chromium, Safari, and old versions of firefox behave properly. |
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Fri Dec 6 15:40:19 2019 |
| David Wallis | wallis@aps.anl.gov | Question | Linux | V3.1.3 | Re: Change column width in list mode? | Awesome, thank you!
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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You need
.listframe td:nth-child(3) {
min-width: 250px;
}
/Stefan
| David Wallis wrote: |
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In some of our logbooks, some columns are very narrow, which makes their content difficult to read. I have tried adding a custom css file like this:
listframe td:nth-child(3) {
width: 250px;
}
But I find that the column width does not change. I have verified via element inspection that the width attribute is active on the correct column (td).
Am I doing someting wrong, or is this not possible?
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Wed Dec 4 20:39:41 2019 |
| John | secondcomingtechnologies@fastmail.com | Info | Linux | Windows | ELOG V3.1.4-ead | Re: How to selectively use Top/Bottom Text JavaScript. | Wow thanks again Stefan for your kind and prompt responses!!
John
| Stefan Ritt wrote: |
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In JS, you have access to the browser URL via window.location. So you can write conditional code depending on the actual elog command.
Stefan
| John wrote: |
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I think I know what the answer(s) will be already.. that I will need to address this in JS. I don't want each screen to run/show the same code, other than the ones I want to. AND I do not want to have to create a custom form for each 'menu option' to achieve this (if possible).
Thanx,
John
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Wed Dec 4 10:37:32 2019 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Question | Linux | V3.1.3 | Re: Change column width in list mode? | You need
.listframe td:nth-child(3) {
min-width: 250px;
}
/Stefan
| David Wallis wrote: |
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In some of our logbooks, some columns are very narrow, which makes their content difficult to read. I have tried adding a custom css file like this:
listframe td:nth-child(3) {
width: 250px;
}
But I find that the column width does not change. I have verified via element inspection that the width attribute is active on the correct column (td).
Am I doing someting wrong, or is this not possible?
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Wed Dec 4 10:15:56 2019 |
| Stefan Ritt | stefan.ritt@psi.ch | Info | Linux | Windows | ELOG V3.1.4-ead | Re: How to selectively use Top/Bottom Text JavaScript. | In JS, you have access to the browser URL via window.location. So you can write conditional code depending on the actual elog command.
Stefan
| John wrote: |
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I think I know what the answer(s) will be already.. that I will need to address this in JS. I don't want each screen to run/show the same code, other than the ones I want to. AND I do not want to have to create a custom form for each 'menu option' to achieve this (if possible).
Thanx,
John
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Wed Dec 4 03:06:50 2019 |
 | John | secondcomingtechnologies@fastmail.com | Info | Linux | Windows | ELOG V3.1.4-ead | How to selectively use Top/Bottom Text JavaScript. | I think I know what the answer(s) will be already.. that I will need to address this in JS. I don't want each screen to run/show the same code, other than the ones I want to. AND I do not want to have to create a custom form for each 'menu option' to achieve this (if possible).
Thanx,
John |
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