Re: username/password dialogue

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39214
interpreted = N
texte = Ron Ceballos wrote: > > no password protected realm for that site. yet I did discover that by > adding append to the allowed commands in the preferences for webcat shook > the problem off. Yet this does not add up as a solution in my mind since > some users who go to the page are allowed thru, while others not...also, we > have other sites that use this same situation with no problem (multiple test > runs saw no correlation btw what browser/platform used). am i on the verge > of a bug report here or does someone have any ideas? > That just means that the people who were let through without the login requester must have been logged in already as a member of the Admin group. If you use [append] contexts instead of ?command=append you will not have this problem again.As the security setting states Only the following commands may be issued by non-administrators. Commands should be in BOLD since that prohibition does not apply to contexts.HTHJohn-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: username/password dialogue (John Peacock 2001)
  2. Re: username/password dialogue (Brian Fries 2001)
  3. Re: username/password dialogue (Ron Ceballos 2001)
  4. Re: username/password dialogue (Paolo Coppo 2001)
  5. username/password dialogue (Ron Ceballos 2001)
Ron Ceballos wrote: > > no password protected realm for that site. yet I did discover that by > adding append to the allowed commands in the preferences for webcat shook > the problem off. Yet this does not add up as a solution in my mind since > some users who go to the page are allowed thru, while others not...also, we > have other sites that use this same situation with no problem (multiple test > runs saw no correlation btw what browser/platform used). am i on the verge > of a bug report here or does someone have any ideas? > That just means that the people who were let through without the login requester must have been logged in already as a member of the Admin group. If you use [append] contexts instead of ?command=append you will not have this problem again.As the security setting states Only the following commands may be issued by non-administrators. Commands should be in BOLD since that prohibition does not apply to contexts.HTHJohn-- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ John Peacock

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