Guest view priviledges?

Guest view priviledges?

[Frank Cohen]

I've posted this twice before with no answer. Would someone please 
respond. Is there a way to enable Gnatsweb to let guest (ie - users 
that have no signed-on) to view a bug db? If so, how?

-Frank



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Re: Guest view priviledges?

[Mark D. Baushke]

Frank Cohen <fcohen@pushtotest.com> writes:

> I've posted this twice before with no answer. Would someone please
> respond. Is there a way to enable Gnatsweb to let guest (ie - users
> that have no signed-on) to view a bug db? If so, how?

First, you need to deal with your website authentication (or not) to
allow a guest account.

Second, you need to provide a gnatsd.access file with a guest account
with some known password (empty passwords should also be possible) that
is given view privilege.

An entry like this:

guest:$0$guest:view:default

in your gnatsd.user_access file should mean that a loging with userid
'guest' and password 'guest' should get the view access you want. Be
aware that you would want to place this near the top of the file before
any wild-card login entries.

For more information, you may wish to look at google with
a search string like

  view guest gnats site:mail.gnu.org

There have been various threads and bug reports over the last few years
on this topic.

	Good luck,
	-- Mark


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Re: Guest view priviledges?

[Frank Cohen]

Thank you so much for the reply. I was beginning to wonder. :-)

It's too bad that you have to actually go through the sign-in page for 
guest view. I would ideally like to give my users a URL that simply 
displays the list of open bugs without requiring them to go through the 
sign-in page first.

I'll look through the google results to see what I can find.

Thanks!

-Frank


On Sunday, October 12, 2003, at 09:26  AM, Mark D. Baushke wrote:

> Frank Cohen <fcohen@pushtotest.com> writes:
>
>> I've posted this twice before with no answer. Would someone please
>> respond. Is there a way to enable Gnatsweb to let guest (ie - users
>> that have no signed-on) to view a bug db? If so, how?
>
> First, you need to deal with your website authentication (or not) to
> allow a guest account.
>
> Second, you need to provide a gnatsd.access file with a guest account
> with some known password (empty passwords should also be possible) that
> is given view privilege.
>
> An entry like this:
>
> guest:$0$guest:view:default
>
> in your gnatsd.user_access file should mean that a loging with userid
> 'guest' and password 'guest' should get the view access you want. Be
> aware that you would want to place this near the top of the file before
> any wild-card login entries.
>
> For more information, you may wish to look at google with
> a search string like
>
>   view guest gnats site:mail.gnu.org
>
> There have been various threads and bug reports over the last few years
> on this topic.
>
> 	Good luck,
> 	-- Mark
>
>
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