Hello, On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:55:13AM +0100, Sebastian Kaps wrote: > Package: mldonkey-server > Version: 2.7.3-1 > Followup-For: Bug #270476 > > > I'm not 100% sure how the mldonkey password system for the html gui > works. I'm experiencing the following behaviour: > > 1. When I first installed one of the more recent mldonkey versions, the > html gui asked for a password. Since I don't want any authentication for > the html gui, I commented out the users-section in the users.ini file > (maybe then this was still located in the downloads.ini - I'm not sure, > but I think it doesn't matter anyway). > When starting mldonkey-server after that the authentication dialog was gone. > > 2. Whenever the mldonkey-server package is updated now, the > authentication dialog reappears and I have to go to the procedure > described above. > > As far as I can see, the postinst script creates the users.ini file. > It checks for a variable mldonkey-sever/password, which I think is empty > in my case. At least I didn't set it anywhere; there's also no > password-entry in /etc/defaults/mldonkey-server. So if the password is > unset, the script creates an empty users.ini file and adds the admin > user with an empty password afterwards. > > BUT: If this was the case, I should be able to log in to the html gui > with user "admin" and an empty password. This doesn't work for me. > Also, if I fire up mldonkey-server after I commented out the > users-section in users.ini, the file gets replaced with one where the > users-section is in again and has this content: > > users = [ > (admin, "31D6CFE0D16AE931B73C59D7E0C089C0");] > > When I now stop the server and start it again, it still does not ask for > a password?! That's the point I can't explain. In my understanding the > authentication dialog should reappear then and ask for the admin user > and its password. >
OK, i understand : you have an empty password. This is a problem for the installation script (password should not be empty). I will see what i can do to prevent this situation. At least i have a way to reproduce your bug. Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
