Developers of Sympa

[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

Nicolas Brouard wrote:

> I downloaded the last tree with a CVS command. And I looked through the WEB
> too. Very nice.
> 
> In the new installation Makefile there is a script which says to add new
> columms in the DB but it is not written to enlarge the password size from 20
> to 40. So be careful if you run crypt-passwd.pl befor enlarging. It will
> work and people will loose their password which will be shortened.

I insist on the fact that CVS version is INSTABLE VERSION.
Some implementation and documentation might not be complete yet.

About crypted password and db entry length, we will add checks and
warnings
in the release.

> Otherwise I feel very happy not to be able to discover my colleagues
> passwords. Thanks!
> 
> I have a problem with the 2 lines
> <!--RCS Identification ;
> blank line
> 
> which are in front of at least each wws_template.
> 
> The consequence is that the "From:" is not read and the message is sent as
> from 'Nobody'.
> 
> I don't know what is the best solution to substitute these two lines within
> the install process.

The RCS ID makes a problem for msg-xxx.tpl templates which are not HTML
(and maybe should be elsewhere). I've deleted RCS ID from these
templates.

Thanks for reporting this problem.

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités