Re: [Savannah-hackers] GNATS host?

[Jeff Bailey]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:58:38PM +0100, Loic Dachary wrote:
>  Thanks for the information. I assume that when you create a new list
> from the web interface some kind of script takes care of all that for
> you ?  I may be naive on that subject :-}

I've never used the web interface to create a list, so I don't know.

Specifically, I didn't know you could.  Maybe post this question to 
system-hackers?

>  > Gnatsweb assumes a particular database structure.  I don't want to force 
>  > people to use it.  Gnats is quite flexable, most of the UIs are not.
>  > 
>  > I had been planning on hacking Gnats to use Kerberos.  Right now it looks 
>  > at plain text flatfiles.  If you want to update the flatfiles, that would 
>  > work, but the passwords are stored in plaintext.
> 
>  Savannah does not store passwords in plain text, therefore it cannot produce
> flatfiles with clear text passwords in it. Would it be possible to arrange

The end of your sentence appears to be missing.

>  > Packages like glibc and oleo provide scripts that allow PRs to be 
>  > emailed in.  Sometimes (like with glibc) it collects some system 
>  > information and fills it in for the user before sending the PR.  This 
>  > behaviour should be preserved.
> 
>  PR == Problem Report ? 

Yeah, sorry.

> Is there any information needed from Savannah for
> this to work ? I mean it works now, why couldn't it work if Savannah comes
> into play ? 

"It works now" is a bad assumption.  The reason most people don't use the 
GNU Gnats (say that 3 times fast!) system is that it's not very nice to 
work with.

I have been splitting things into multiple databases, and will probably 
need to hack Gnats a little bit to make it do what I want.  Thankfully, 
it's under new maintainership so the changes will get fed upstream pretty 
quickly.

The hardest part is going to be smooth authentication/authorization 
between savannah and gnats.  Probably initially, you'll need to have a 
"What is your gnats password", with an explanation that it's totally 
insecure so please choose a different password.

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