Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed enhancement

[Jim Busser]

Easier than to trap for the language returned by postgres would be  
for the client to detect the absence of a password. Absence would be  
a bad practice, and yet some edge case even just for testing has  
previously been argued.

A dialog could usefully trap for a missing password at the same time  
as it ignored (and left unbothered) the users who *did* put in a  
password.

I would suggest a reasonable solution would be for the client to trap  
a missing password and prompt the user:

        Really try logging in with an <empty> password?
                Yes --> continues (usually a bad choice but at least informs 
the user)
                No --> returns to login dialog

OTOH when a password *had* been entered but was rejected, what  
Rogerio suggests may be misleading (extraneous) because while the  
userid and password may have belonged to this user, the problem could  
have been the *database* selection thus why postgres returns:

        Please retry with another profile !

Possibly it could better say:

        Please retry another database / username / password combination.

or

        Please check your database / username / password selections.

BTW the login dialog label "Backend" is perhaps technical, should it  
be "Log into" or "Database" ?
        

On 30-Jun-09, at 5:54 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:

> In the opening window login dialog:
>
> 1- if no password is presented there is a error window that gives  
> the postgresql output
> "PostgreSQL: fe_sendauth: no password supplied
> DSN: dbname=gnumed_v11 port=5432 user=rogluz sslmode=prefer"
>
> 2- if password is WRONG output: "FATAL:  autenticação do tipo  
> password falhou para usuário "rogluz"
> Please retry with another profile ! " (translated to portuguese)
>
> - can we change both to "Please inform correct login and password  
> for your account" ?
>
>
> Rogerio
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