From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12054 invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2001 03:56:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 11946 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2001 03:54:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:22:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [adam@tabris.net: GNATS Login] Message-ID: <20011215035522.GA9241@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: overseers@sourceware.org References: <20011215033128.GA7953@redhat.com> <20011214194415.A32364@molenda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011214194415.A32364@molenda.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00179.txt.bz2 On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:44:15PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote: >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This has probably been discussed before, but is there any way to avoid >>the problem described below? It is annoying to have to login before >>viewing a PR. > >I'm not sure what his complaint is... of course anyone can view the >PRs by using the guest/guest login which is documented on the login >page. In fact, any arbitrary name/password will give you read-only >access unless someone has changed the configurations since I set them >up. He's complaining that he has to *first* login and *then* view the page. He can't just click on the URL and have the page displayed automatically. >If you've logged in, doesn't gnatsweb store the login info in a cookie, >and subsequent accesses get the name/password out of the cookie? > >I agree that it'd be sweet if gnatsweb could assume a guest/guest login >if no gnatsweb cookie is presented (and people would have to click on a >'login' button to log in with a write-access acct), but I don't see the >current situation as especially unbearable. Maybe this user has >cookies disabled. No one said it was unbearable. It just isn't user friendly. I just tried this with a browser where I hadn't logged into gnats and got a login screen rather than the bug. It's obvious what needs to be done at this point. It's not obvious why we require it. That's all. I was just asking if it was possible to have things changed so that the default was to login as guest, which would bypass this minor problem. cgf From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [adam@tabris.net: GNATS Login] Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20011215035522.GA9241@redhat.com> References: <20011215033128.GA7953@redhat.com> <20011214194415.A32364@molenda.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00404.html Message-ID: <20011214195600.Vwjj_R3Wg-0fiy7UrN8sJRls4v3SmQIDfAA3fVISVNE@z> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:44:15PM -0800, Jason Molenda wrote: >On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:31:28PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>This has probably been discussed before, but is there any way to avoid >>the problem described below? It is annoying to have to login before >>viewing a PR. > >I'm not sure what his complaint is... of course anyone can view the >PRs by using the guest/guest login which is documented on the login >page. In fact, any arbitrary name/password will give you read-only >access unless someone has changed the configurations since I set them >up. He's complaining that he has to *first* login and *then* view the page. He can't just click on the URL and have the page displayed automatically. >If you've logged in, doesn't gnatsweb store the login info in a cookie, >and subsequent accesses get the name/password out of the cookie? > >I agree that it'd be sweet if gnatsweb could assume a guest/guest login >if no gnatsweb cookie is presented (and people would have to click on a >'login' button to log in with a write-access acct), but I don't see the >current situation as especially unbearable. Maybe this user has >cookies disabled. No one said it was unbearable. It just isn't user friendly. I just tried this with a browser where I hadn't logged into gnats and got a login screen rather than the bug. It's obvious what needs to be done at this point. It's not obvious why we require it. That's all. I was just asking if it was possible to have things changed so that the default was to login as guest, which would bypass this minor problem. cgf