[LON-CAPA-admin] Userstatus and Cookie Information

[Mark Lucas]

Stuart,

Thanks for clearing that up. It makes sense, and I had been wondering
about the issues of having the same password for everyone.

Mark

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:52 -0400, Stuart Raeburn wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> > This may have gone by and I missed it, but I'm having troubles accessing
> > the status pages, such as userstatus.pl. It complains
> >
> > "Your Cookie Information is Incorrect" my servers.
> 
> Sorry you ran into this unexpectedly.
> 
> Yes, this was a 2.8 change, designed to address privacy concerns.
> 
> In 2.8, to use userstatus.pl on servers in your domain, you now either  
> have to have an active LON-CAPA session, (and you need to have  
> privileges to use the utility), _or_ you have to have configured your  
> domain to allow access to this utility from the IP address of your  
> machine (in which case no LON-CAPA session is needed, and direct  
> access to the URL is permitted).
> 
> DCs automatically have access to userstatus.pl for servers in their  
> domain (when logged in). A Domain Coordinator's Main Menu includes a  
> "Status of domain servers" item which links to a number of utilities  
> which provide server status
> information.
> 
> For direct access (without log-in), as DC you need to configure  
> IP-based access for your domain.
> 
> Main Menu -> Set domain configuratuiion -> Access to server status pages
> 
> Save the IP address(es) of your machine(s) for the appropriate service  
> (User Status Summary) in the Specific IPs column.
> 
> The formerly used access control for userstatus.pl (and related pages)  
> - Apache Basic Auth - has been retired.
> 
> For more information, see the Domain Coordination/Domain Settings  
> section of the  2.8 release notes/announcement:
> 
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/pipermail/lon-capa-admin/2009-January/002153.html
> 
> Stuart Raeburn
> MSU LON-CAPA group
> 
> Quoting Mark Lucas <lucasm at ohio.edu>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > This may have gone by and I missed it, but I'm having troubles accessing
> > the status pages, such as userstatus.pl. It complains
> >
> > "Your Cookie Information is Incorrect" my servers.
> >
> > Has there been a change that I missed? Are other people having the same
> > problem or is this just an issue for me.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Lucas                                      email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
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> > Ohio University
> > Athens, OH 45701
> >
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