Re: [Gnumed-devel] oscar fiddling

[Syan Tan]

I couldn't find the password.
 

On Fri Jun 30  1:24 , James Busser  sent:

> 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.