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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

solved...

silly me, I uncommented one line too many in sympa.conf

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:04:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: [sympa-users] Re: wwsympa keeps sending me back to login screen
>     - more details
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2003 address@concealed wrote:
>
> > I've been struggling to get sympa installed and running. I think I have 
> > most of the pieces in place, but I'm now at a point where:
> > - the daemons seem to be running and talking to mysql
> > - wwsympa seems to run and talk to things
> > - I asked wwsympa to send me a password
> > - I seem to be able to log in with that password
> >
> > But...
> >
> > - once I'm logged in, and I try to do anything (such as set a 
> > preference), I'm sent back to a screen saying that I have to log in
> > - I've already checked and it seems like sympa is writing cookies to my 
> > browser (Mozilla 1.2.1 on Mac OSX)
>
> from the log file:
> May 12 15:57:16 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172]
> do_login(address@concealed)
> May 12 15:57:16 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172] [user
> address@concealed] do_serveradmin
> May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
> address@concealed] do_create_list_request()
> May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
> address@concealed] do_create_list_request:  no user
> May 12 15:57:39 sun10101 wwsympa[17430]: [client 198.65.128.172] [alt
> address@concealed] do_loginrequest
> May 12 17:32:06 sun10101 wwsympa[17424]: [client 198.65.128.172] do_home
>
> so somehow, wwsympa seems to retain my user name, but not that I'm
> alreadyy logged in (what's the difference between a log entry of 'user'
> and one of 'alt'?)
>
> >
> > So...
> >
> > - any suggestions?
> > - any thoughts re. how to debug what's going on (debug switches, log 
> > levels, probes?
>
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The Center for Civic Networking             PO Box 600618
Miles R. Fidelman, President &              Newtonville, MA 02460-0006
Director, Municipal Telecommunications
Strategies Program                          617-558-3698 fax: 617-630-8946
address@concealed                      http://civic.net/ccn.html

Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century
Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere
Say It Often, Say It Loud: "I Want My Internet!"
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