On 10/18/06, Mads Kiilerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Travers wrote, On 10/19/2006 01:18 AM: > > Would it be easier just to include by default a .htaccess file that > > would deny access to the admin.pl with instructions on how to remove > > it? Once you go to the admin.pl screen, if it has a blank password, > > you will get prompted to enter another one. > > > > So the .htaccess should be included in the rpm? In that case an upgrade > would introduce it again...
No. I was thinking of generating it the same way you generate the members file. I am assuming that what you put in that part of the script won't get regenerated on each upgrade... Otherwise your user account info would be wiped out... > > > With the .htaccess solution, we can provide a nice description of what > > needs to be done to allow access, etc. > > > > What I want to avoid is people having to spend too much time looking > > for documentation when RPM's ideally should be plug and play. > > > > Yeah. The package info is the first place I would look. I wouldn't know > which url to look at or which of the many docs in the RPM to read. > > IF you think the url to admin.pl is intuitive, then I would rather suggest: > admin.pl currently detects a blank password and asks for one. > Similarly, if the "crypted" string is "DEFAULT" then admin.pl could tell > the user to remove the line or whole file. The RPM could then contain a > config file with the password set to DEFAULT... Is there any reason why we couldn't have the instructions be duplicated in the following areas: package info RPM-Readme.txt (which of course is served out if the .htaccess file exists) > > > BTW, I will probably add dependencies for DBI and PostgreSQL (since we > > don't support other db's at the moment). Hope this helps. > > > > The spec already has that. Installing the rpm with yum will install all > dependencies too. Great :-) I must have missed it. Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
