Re: [Gnumed-devel] oscar fiddling

[James Busser]

On Jun 29, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Syan Tan wrote:

> after some fiddling , got the cvs oscar to work on my debian  
> testing system.
Thanks
> used the tomcat5 package in debian, but using the sun jdk .
Is the above version (tomcat5) from unstable?
> then need to copy oscar_mcmaster/build/ war files to the /usr/shar/ 
> tomcat5/webapps/ directory,
Did you also need to modify server.xml paths to usr/share/tomcat5/ ?

> finally copy oscar_mcmaster.properties as  /root/oscar.properties
not usr/share/tomcat5/ ?
>

> One problem was logging in , because the passwords are stored as   
> StringBuffer.toString() conversions of byte arrays
>
> created from MessageDigest.getInstance("sha")  , which converts to  
> some hyphenated number, which is then
>
> stored in the password field of the  oscar_mcmaster.security table .

How was the above a problem... was it because you had been hoping to  
read or directly over-write the password value? I did notice that in  
a standard (default) oscar installation, it is only the login  
oscardoc that is enabled whereas the userids administrator and  
reception do not come pre-assigned as having rights to log in.