From: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
To: Moe Elzubeir <Elzubeir@cobaf.coba.unt.edu>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnats passwords
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 01:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <sc220a1f.038@gwia.unt.edu>
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Yes, sounds like a bug with encrypted passwords.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Moe Elzubeir wrote:
>
> Actually you are right. But that only works when the passwords are in plain-text. For
> example,
>
> testguy:$0$testguy:admin:default
>
> entry in the gnatsd.acess file would let you in as admin even if gnats.host_acess is set
> to 'view'. But, as soon as I encrypt the password (haven't tested md5 yet), it doesn't
> seem to care.
>
> I think we have a bug.. should I enter a PR for this one?
>
> ¯-
> Mohammed Elzubeir
>
> >>> Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com> 12/20/01 03:04PM >>>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Moe Elzubeir wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > So far I have been able to get everything to run smoothly ;)
> >
> > However, I am still very confused about the usr/password and gnatsd.host_acess. Does one override the other?
> > It seems that in my system, it doesn't matter what the users access level is set to, it will still go with whatever
> > is defined in gnatsd.host_acccess.
> >
> > The documentation doesn't really tell if one overrides the other, so I don't know why I'm experiencing that
> > behavior. Any ideas?
>
> In version 3.x (I don't think they changed it for V4?), the user's access
> can increase the access level granted in host_access, but not lower it.
>
> ...RickM...
>
>
>
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From: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
To: Moe Elzubeir <Elzubeir@cobaf.coba.unt.edu>
Cc: help-gnats@gnu.org
Subject: Re: gnats passwords
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10112201518580.3364-100000@sys4> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011220142100.8DiR0qFCJ5ogc3dgWMe6qDj0re-zm9VvJMvVZnjyUNU@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sc220a1f.038@gwia.unt.edu>
Yes, sounds like a bug with encrypted passwords.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Moe Elzubeir wrote:
>
> Actually you are right. But that only works when the passwords are in plain-text. For
> example,
>
> testguy:$0$testguy:admin:default
>
> entry in the gnatsd.acess file would let you in as admin even if gnats.host_acess is set
> to 'view'. But, as soon as I encrypt the password (haven't tested md5 yet), it doesn't
> seem to care.
>
> I think we have a bug.. should I enter a PR for this one?
>
> ¯-
> Mohammed Elzubeir
>
> >>> Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com> 12/20/01 03:04PM >>>
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Moe Elzubeir wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > So far I have been able to get everything to run smoothly ;)
> >
> > However, I am still very confused about the usr/password and gnatsd.host_acess. Does one override the other?
> > It seems that in my system, it doesn't matter what the users access level is set to, it will still go with whatever
> > is defined in gnatsd.host_acccess.
> >
> > The documentation doesn't really tell if one overrides the other, so I don't know why I'm experiencing that
> > behavior. Any ideas?
>
> In version 3.x (I don't think they changed it for V4?), the user's access
> can increase the access level granted in host_access, but not lower it.
>
> ...RickM...
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Help-gnats mailing list
> Help-gnats@gnu.org
> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnats
>
...RickM...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-20 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-15 1:41 Moe Elzubeir
2001-11-15 1:49 ` Rick Macdonald [this message]
2001-12-20 14:21 ` Rick Macdonald
2001-12-20 14:01 ` Moe Elzubeir
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2001-11-14 17:07 Moe Elzubeir
2001-11-15 1:34 ` Rick Macdonald
2001-11-19 8:48 ` Milan Zamazal
2001-12-23 12:45 ` Milan Zamazal
2001-12-20 13:06 ` Rick Macdonald
2001-12-20 12:36 ` Moe Elzubeir
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