Hi Karen, On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org> wrote:
> What is the big deal in having to log in again? If you save your > credentials in your browser, it's literally just one more click. > > The problem is that in order to improve the security of my passwords, I keep them all encrypted using a master password. Firefox has a built-in feature for that and, if you don't set a master passwords then the passwords are stored using a relatively easy-to-reverse process which every process on the local system can use (or at least those running as the local user). There's some old discussion of it here: http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s09.html Since my firefox password is non-trivial, entering it to fill in the rt.cpan.org password whenever I restart firefox, restart my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System or restart the machine (for a new kernel, glibc, etc.) is quite a hassle. What will make my life more tolerable would be a browser add-on that will allow me to keep the rt.cpan.org password (and only that) unencrypted (as I already have it in "~/.pause" anyway). > I'd like to thank the RT admins in providing this service free to the Perl > community; it is really awesome that a bug queue is created automatically > for every distribution without the authors having to do a single thing to > set it up. > I'd like to thank them too, but having to login time and again is still a fly in the ointment. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Shawn, >> >> sorry for the late response. I'm CCing module-authors becase you did not >> explicitly specify that you wish this reply to be kept private. >> >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Shawn M Moore via RT < >> cpan-questi...@bestpractical.com> wrote: >> >>> On Fri Nov 18 06:01:48 2016, shlo...@gmail.com wrote: >>> > Dear rt-cpan-admin >>> >>> Hi Shlomi, >>> >>> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Dear sirs and madams, >>> > > >>> > > thanks for maintaining http://rt.cpan.org/ . >>> > > >>> > > There is, however, a long-standing problem with it that the site keeps >>> > > logging me out (usually after I close my browser), and I keep having to >>> > > login again. This makes it frustrating to use rt.cpan.org. Please fix it >>> > > as soon as possible. >>> >>> RT uses session cookies (also called transient cookies) which, as you >>> describe, usually clear when you close your browser. It's a tradeoff we >>> make for security. >>> >>> I see. That sounds like a very bad trade off in this day and age, >> because people often need to reboot for new kernel / new libc / system >> update / etc. or they need to restart their browsers because they either >> crashed or started consuming too much RAM (and as you may know - browsers >> like Firefox or GChromium have recently become memory hogs). >> >> I suppose I can convert to use GitHub Issues / GitLab Issues / Bitbucket >> Issues / etc. - at least for my own CPAN distributions - but this will >> involve a lot of manual tweaking and uploading new versions. Perhaps it >> will be the last straw for creating my own Dist Zilla PluginBundle. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- Shlomi Fish >> >> >> >>> > > Regards, >>> > > >>> > > -- Shlomi Fish >>> >>> Best, >>> Shawn >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ >> >> You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it >> in the original Klingon. >> >> Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply >> . >> > > -- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
