Re: Status & CVS & objects

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Micah K Yoder wrote:

> ok..........
> 
> am ready to test my attempt at getting signup.php3 working with the
> object system, but....
> 
> the CVS permissions really do need to be fixed.  CVS aborts before it
> gets to users.  when I checkout, I can do cvs co main/users but
> webupdate main doesn't allow that.
> 
> when I hit http://dev.linuxkb.org:81/users/tools/signup.php3 I get a 404
> Not Found.  Why am I not even getting the *old* signup.php3?  It used to
> be there...

I did a webupdate main and /users/tools magically appeared... Daniel?
 
> Passwords... Aaron, you might want to do what you need to do to switch
> over to crypt() for authentication, cause that's how it's gonna work! 
> :-)

wait a sec.  All the passwords in the current database are mysql's
password().  I can't really support both ya know.  We need a plan to
convert over.

> Speaking of authentication, there's another way that we use at work, but
> it REQUIRES cookies (at least temporary ones).  It's somewhat slick, but
> I guess the required cookies make it out of the question...???  It
> involves getting an md5() hash of the username, time logged in, and
> maybe something else... I'd have to check...  and storing it in a
> database table.

Cookies are evil.  No need to have them IMHO, for this at least.

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