Re: [mv] remoteuser password

[David Babler <dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com>]

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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mike Heins wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>     ******
> Quoting David Babler (dbabler@rigel.orionsys.com):
> > 
> > OKay, I've been over and over this, searched the archives and got even
> > more confused...
> > 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 4.0, Apache-1.3.6/mod_ssl/2.2.8 and MiniVend 4...
> > 
> > Problems:
> > 
> > 1. The documentation mentions the remote user password as being "encrypted
> > or unencrypted" and even shows a "blank" encrypted password, however,
> > makecat never encrypts this field in the catalog.cfg file, leaving it
> > plaintext...
> 
> Makecat gives you the option to either run encrypted or not encrypted.
> If you have the recommended module set installed, you can hit the <UP>
> key at the password prompt and it will set an encrypted version of "pass"
> in the file.

I see that now, thanks. Some reference somewhere that you can use htpasswd
to generate passwords would be handy. In a production environment, having
all new catalogs showing up with exactly the same password wouldn't be
good. <G>


BTW, the documentation showing how to restart minivend (in the stdout when
you run makecat and in the general documentation) is incorrect, at least
for FreeBSD:

	su -c "/usr/local/minivend/bin/minivend -r" minivend

means to run as *class* /usr/local/... and log in as user minivend. What
it needs to be is:

	su minivend -c "/usr/local/minivend/bin/minivend -r"

so that the argument is passed to the login shell.

-Dave

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