From: Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@sun.com>
To: <gargp@acm.org>,
"'Dirk Schenkewitz'" <Dirk.Schenkewitz@interface-ag.com>,
<help-gnats@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Patch: Fix user authentication + MKDB
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020927092621.00b45d18@ms-eaft02-01.holland.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c265b2$ce7fc7e0$8d835f0f@home.org>
At 16:16 26.09.2002 -0700, Pankaj K Garg wrote:
>I'm attaching a patch "gnatspatch.out" with this message that
>does this. Seems to work on my small tries here, but would
>appreciate if someone else can take a look at it also.
>
>The empty password bit required a change (backwards compatible)
>to the protocol. Previously, the client was required to
>give:
>
> USER <name> <password>
> CHDB <db> <name> <password>
>
>Now, clients can give:
>
> USER <name> [<password>]
> CHDB <db> <name> [<password>]
>
>Hence, the password is optional and will be assumed to be
>empty.
>
>For clients to take advantage of this, however, they may
>need some modification. For example, gnatsweb assumes that
>the user always requires some value for the password.
>So, I'm also attaching a patch for gnatsweb ("gnatswebpatch.out")
>that takes care of empty password situation.
>
>If the gnats gurus will accept the gnats patch, then I can
>submit the gnatsweb patch to the appropriate mailing list.
You don't need to. If we decide to apply the patch to GNATS, I will apply
the necessary changes to Gnatsweb as well.
I think the behaviour this patch would introduce is sensible, but I will
wait for people's comments before possibly applying it. Be aware that I am
not a seasoned C coder, so if someone would take a look at the
tecnicalities of the patch, that would be excellent.
Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-24 7:17 Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-25 8:25 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-09-25 8:25 ` Dirk Schenkewitz
2002-09-25 8:43 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-27 6:01 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-27 10:06 ` Yngve Svendsen [this message]
2002-09-27 11:40 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-09-27 14:28 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-29 2:43 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-09-29 12:06 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-29 20:31 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-09-30 3:21 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-10-03 21:27 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-10-04 0:01 ` Lars Henriksen
2002-10-04 10:25 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-10-04 11:41 ` Yngve Svendsen
2002-09-25 8:59 ` Pankaj K Garg
2002-09-26 6:38 ` Lars Henriksen
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