[Koha] Re: koha 1.2.3 still requiring constant login/authentification

[Chris Cormack]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:02:32PM +0200, Matthias & Melanie Kasimir <wahr at epost.de> said:
> Hi Chris,

Hi Matthias
> 
> I do very much appreciate your help. Since I am new to koha (just had
> it installed for us), it will take some time for me to chew on your
> answer. You can be sure that I will try it and report as to the
> effect of any changes I make.
> 
Excellent thats great.

> Does it make sense to wait and install koha 2.0.x once it is out?
> Or will it be as difficult as installing 1.2.3, so I should stick to
> what is already installed? Or is it easy normally an I just screwed
> up and made it more complicated  than it is? I did not expect a point-
> and-click installation, but something like extract *.tgz and run
> configure-script, then make and make-install and go.
> 
Id wait and go for 2.0 when it is out, it has a lot of new features, and
quite a few bug fixes from 1.2.3.
And should be as easy as tar xzvf koha-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd koha-2.0.0
./installer.pl

(Thats the plan anyway:-))

> One other thing to consider is, wether the migration of data entered
> in 1.2.3 to 2.0.x will be straightforward for unxeperienced users. If
> not, we better refrain from entering any data and wait till 2.0.x.
> 
We will write a script to migrate the data. The actual data that is in 1.2.3
doesnt change structure for 2.0.0 but there are a whole lot of new tables to
populate. Mostly the MARC tables. So we will have the upgrade script do this
for you automatically.

> > Koha will check for basic http authentication as well as for a cookie.
> > So you can set up http authentication anyway you like.
> 
> Aha?
> 
> 1) This still seems not to explain why koha does not accept one
> authentification in one session.
> 
> 2) Or does it explain, because my browsers reject koha's cookie in
> some way unknown to me, although it is configured to accept cookies.
> 
> 3) Or is the cookie not sent to the browser in the first place?
> 
Its either 2 or 3 :-) If I get a chance over the weekend ill install a 1.2.3
install from scratch and check it out for you.

> > What we do at HLT is use Apache::AuthDBI to authenticate against
> > table in the koha database. Heres the code in the httpd.conf
> 
> Can I just paste the code into httpd.conf and expect it to work?
> 
Ahh nope, You will need to make the users table, and populate, and install
the Apache::AuthDBI module for it to work.

What I would do is just try it out with a simple .htaccess , .htpasswd and
.htgroup files .. I can step you through setting that up if you like?

> 
> Btw: Does koha generate barcodes for printout on labels or do I need
> a special program to do this?
> 
Ahh nope Koha wont do this, lots of people have recommended Kbarcode as a
good program to do this.

> Greetings from northern Germany,
> 
And Kia Ora, from about the middle of NZ :-)

Chris

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