Re: Gnatsweb / passwords

[Yngve Svendsen <yngve dot svendsen at clustra dot com>]

At 09:52 02.07.2001 +0100, nick@brainstorm.co.uk wrote:
>While we're still talking about passwords, will it be possible for those
>of us using apache+ssl to bypass the gnatsweb login process completely?
>(Since they would have already done an apache login).  I feel lame about
>asking for what could be such a trivial mod, but then I'm a Python &
>Java person and lack any Perl ability. <:)

Yes. We have a monster patch ready for Gnatsweb 4.x which will be applied 
by the end of this week, and this version will be able to use the "remote 
user" parameter set at browser login. You'll just need to set a single 
config parameter at the start of the Gnatsweb script. However, I am not 
planning to backport this to version 2 of Gnatsweb, so you'll need to jump 
up to GNATS 4 in order to use the new Gantsweb. Backporting would probably 
not be hard (I don't quite remember exactly what the patch does wrt. this), 
but I try to use the spare cycles I have to help getting GNATS 4 out of the 
door.

- Yngve