[Koha] Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
Hi, I am trying to promote Koha here in Denmark. We have a large number of small private schools for whick Koha is just great. However, often they do not have a lot of knowhow on Linux terminal (or nothing at all). Here the Live-DVD is really great. Starting with that, I try to make step-by-step guides (on my site koha.dk) to help people without any preconditions to get started. One of the major remaining obstacles is the need to change the master password katikoan. I have made a guide on this and I think most people should be able to handle it. However, it made me wonder, if this obstacle could be avoided? One possibility would off course be to let people enter their own password during the installation from the live-DVD, but that would probably complicate the installation proces and I like that to be as simple as possible. Therefore I had another idea, but I dont know, if this is at all possible. Could the scope of the users be limited? What I would like was, if this master-user (with password katikoan) would only work, if you sit and log in directly at the server (not across any network). Then you would install koha on the server, log in there and create at least one admin-user. Then you could use this to log in from somewhere else and continue from there. In this case there would be no need to change katikoan, because nobody from outside could use it. Maybe this could be extended. When you create admin-users, you may give them different permissions. Maybe these could be dependent on whether you log in at the server, from the local network or across the Internet. I think this could increase the general security? At least I could easily imagine cases, where a user should have admin-rights only, when sitting inside the house at the local network. -- Venlig hilsen Lars J. Helbo Borgergade 44, Sall DK-8450 Hammel tlf+fax: (+45) 8696 9315 l...@helbo.org www.helbo.org ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
Hello Lars, On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Lars J. Helbo l...@helbo.org wrote: snipped One of the major remaining obstacles is the need to change the master password katikoan The password is simply the mysql db passwd. So, IMHO the simplest thing would be as follows: 1. write a bash script to change the mysql db password 2. update the koha-conf.xml with the new password, using sed for example, called when 1 is completed. 3. Unpack the ISO, place your script(s) and remaster the ISO. Test in a VM. Rinse and repeat until it works perfectly. cheers -- Indranil Das Gupta Phone : +91-98300-20971 Blog: http://indradg.randomink.org/blog IRC : indradg on irc://irc.freenode.net Twitter : indradg -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Support Open Standards. For a free editor supporting ODF, please visit LibreOffice - http://www.documentfoundation.org ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
Greetings, The Live-DVD is great for testing and demonstrating. A package installation is better for production use. When you install packages, the password is auto-magically created as part of the install process. Assuming your instance name is library, the command typically used to figure out what the password is before going into the web installation step is: $ sudo xmlstarlet sel -t -v 'yazgfs/config/pass' /etc/koha/sites/library/koha-conf.xml Just change 'library' to whatever you call your instance. Step-by-step guides are nice, but with the tendency for people to proliferate them all over the internet, this tends to lead towards a lot of outdated guides all over the place. And this leads to people following outdated instructions while trying to install current versions. This is generally a bad thing. If these are Live-DVD instructions, I would recommend you teaming with the person making the Live-DVD so that the instructions are together with the product for which they are intended. This will limit proliferation of older instructions. As for your idea to limit the system user to only localhost is possible, but you would also have to consider various networking configurations such as proxies. Because of this complication, I don't foresee anyone spending time on it, but you are always welcome to supply a patch to Koha. And lastly, I in no way reflect the final word on anything. :) GPML, Mark Tompsett ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
Re: [Koha] Master-password (katikoan) and Live-DVD
Dear Lars, I appreciate your efforts to promote Koha in Denmark. Now Koha 3.12 version Live DVD is in progress. Please listen about are login settings with this Live DVD, I have done post installation steps of Koha (e.g. sample news etc.) I have not created Library Branch. In my experience most of the librarians like to assign their own code for library branch. So, after installation of Live DVD, librarian has to login using master login details and need to create a normal user and assign super librarian privileges for daily login. I assigned master user name is koha_library, password is koha123. And all details including passwords mentioned in Readme file, which put in desktop. This arrangement is friendly for newbies? Otherwise, we have to create a branch with code MAIN and assign a super librarian with password. Regards, -- Vimal Kumar V. Mahatma Gandhi University Library Kottayam, Kerala- 686 560 Web: http://www.vimalkumar.info Blog: http://linuxhalwa.blogspot.com http://kohageek.blogspot.in --- I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt -Patrick White ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
