[Koha] Re: Koha 2.2.3 + basic authentication

[Nigel Titley]

Jared Jennings wrote:

>I believe I've uncovered a bug in Koha's handling of basic
>authentication in 2.2.3.
>  
>
I don't think basic authentication is supported in Koha 2.2.3

I got things working by switching off basic authentication

>If you log in using sesion ID's and cookies and all this, the
>checkauth function will sooner or later have a line like:
>$flags = haspermission($dbh, $userid, $flagsrequired);
>
>This will happen before it returns $flags.
>
>But in the case of basic authentication, $flags is never assigned
>anything before it is returned. The result of this is that when I use
>basic authentication, I can't see any parameters in the parameters
>page. Nigel Titley <nigel at titley.com> was having some problems like
>this around July 30, 2005.
>
>When I applied this change to
>/usr/local/lib/koha/intranet/modules/Auth.pm, I could see all the 
>parameters on the parameters page that I should be able to see as a
>superlibrarian. The patch follows.
>
>--- Auth.pm.old 2005-08-26 00:35:22.000000000 +0000
>+++ Auth.pm     2005-08-26 00:34:34.000000000 +0000
>@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@
>                                -value => '',
>                                -expires => '');
>                $loggedin = 1;
>+               $flags = haspermission($dbh, $userid, $flagsrequired);
>        } elsif ($sessionID=$query->cookie('sessionID')) {
>                my ($ip , $lasttime);
>                ($userid, $ip, $lasttime) = $dbh->selectrow_array(
>
>  
>

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