gnats/274: Authentication problem

[akos . gabriel]

>Number:         274
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       Authentication problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 05 08:54:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     address@hidden
>Release:        unknown-1.0
>Organization:
>Environment:

>Description:
I wasn't able to set up a configuration where the users
are authenticated against their passwords.
Either everybody came in, or nobody.
By this patch you have the possibility to control
the users, or give everybody full access with that:
*:*:edit:
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Patch of cmds.c in the gnatsd source tree:
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--- ../../gnats-3.113/gnats/cmds.c      Thu Mar 18 00:45:36 1999
+++ cmds.c      Fri Oct  5 17:06:35 2001
@@ -473,8 +473,9 @@
   
   if (access > host_access)
     user_access = access;
-
-  if (user_access <= ACCESS_NONE)
+  else user_access=host_access;
+ 
+  if (user_access <= ACCESS_NONE )
     {
       syslog (LOG_ERR, "user not allowed access: %s/%s", av[0], av[1]);
       printf ("%d You are not on the user access list: %s/%s.\r\n",
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