[mythtv-users] MythWeb not asking for password on Mythbuntu 0.21

Mario Limonciello mario.mailing at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 00:47:06 UTC 2008


Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>  I'm new to Mythweb and it's great. Just not had time to look at it
>>  before. I'm confused by something though. The upgrade to Mythbuntu 0.21
>>  asked me to enter a password for Mythweb. I was glad of this as I wasn't
>>  sure how to secure it manually. However, I seem to be able to go to
>>  Mythweb from the machines on my lan without entering a password.
> 
> I have noticed the same thing. It seems that even if you are asked for
> a password (stored in /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest) the mythweb
> configuration doesn't enable authentication at all.
> You can check for yourself in
> /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythweb.conf /which is a link to
> /etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf ).
> Even more confusing, there is a .htaccess  in
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb which is a link to
> /etc/mythtv/mythweb-htaccess (non-existing)
> So I'm not really sure how the setup should be.
> Anyway, after I enabled authentication in mythweb.conf and restarted
> apache, it works.
> 
> HTH
Looks like a bug creeped into the postinst.  We'll get that fixed in the hardy
builds this weekend.

-- 
Mario Limonciello
mario.mailing at gmail.com

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