On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:55 -0700, Chris Travers wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 5:30 AM, ario <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry to come back to this again, but it's not yet clear to me, > > especially what you mean by 'cluster', and no doubt my description of > > the problem contained some ambiguity/ies. > > Ok. On cluster is one instance of PostgreSQL listening on one port. > > > > I think I have one Pg 'cluster' on my computer, with different > > databases, each for one 'company', because when I set up (past tense) > > the system, I created various databases from within the LSMB browser. > > It's the switching between theses databases that causes the > > inconvenience of having to re-submit a password over and again. > > > > Is that what you mean that can be solved by renaming a cookie? > > Well, in 1.3, you have two choices: > 1) You can use two different web browsers (you can do this in 1.2 too) or
Ok, so it would be solved if I'd create a different firefox profile for each company's database and made sure I'd access each database from within a different profile? Or (easier or at least faster for me), create different users (linux) for each company and open a separate browser from within each user's account for every database to be accessed? Great! I'll do that at once! Actually I just did it and it works, thanks for letting me know! thanks ario > 2) You can install LedgerSMB twice and rename the cookie on one. > > I note that Google Chrome's In Cognito mode can be used to essentially > run Chrome as two browser instances (but not three). If you have > Chrome and are accessing LedgerSMB 1.2 or 1.3 you could access the > second db in in cognito mode and that would solve the problem too. > > In 1.3, the idea of having the same web browser hitting two different > databases is actually a bit more problematic because of the fact that > a given user account can be used against several databases. Thus the > authentication is actually more tied to the browser session rather > than less. > > If someone really needs the ability to open up two companies > side-by-side and compare in the same browser, I'd have to think about > the best way of doing this. Renaming the cookie wouldn't be > sufficient because unless the database name is passed in the query > string the web server would have no way of knowing which cookie to > look at. Two instances however can solve this by tying the cookie to > the path, but if the URL is the same that doesn't work. > > SL solved this problem by passing the login back on every form and > using that to rename the cookie. We haven't supported that since 1.1 > (or even 1.0), I think, for reasons of trying to manage the security > of sessions. At any rate it won't work when the same user credentials > can be used to log into multiple databases. > > One option I think we should look for in 2.0 is the idea of every page > being a form, and every form submitting certain data back. With the > shift to a new template system, this would become possible. That > would allow us to move the database name out of the cookie, perhaps > even get rid of the cookie altogether. Then the auth domain issue > would become arguably possible to solve without making a mess of > things. > > Best Wishes, > Chris Travers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model > configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and > the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free > download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Ledger-smb-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
