Re: LedgerSMB rpm spec

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On 10/18/06, Mads Kiilerich <..hidden..> 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