Re: [Gnumed-devel] Login window - link to wiki - junior programming job

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Freitag 05 März 2010 10:44:54 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 12:54:14PM +0100, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > Please add a link to the FAQ section of the wiki in the help section of
> > the login window (Help button).
> > 
> > This is the ideal junior programming job and your chance to either learn
> > how to produce a patch or work with GIT.
> > 
> > I believe the password in GNUmed is a much larger hurdle then we realize
> > :-). Despite the fact that any-doc's password is mentioned just about
> > everywhere it is not picked up by many.
> 
> While I agree what you suggest is a good job for a beginner ...
> 


> > One of today's chat sessions asking how to login or create local users
> > ...
> 
> ... this guy doesn't have a password problem.

Yes. He does not. Unfortunately he did not even look at the profiles. He just 
looked at the screen and was lost. Little we can do about it.

> 
> > start of the chat log:
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > -------------------- releasedude (me): Hi
> > releasedude: What operating system do you have ?
> > webuser: see the error message i get
> > webuser25119: Connecting to backend
> > ---------------------------
> > Unable to connect to database:
> > 
> > PostgreSQL: FATAL:  password authentication failed for user "any-doc"
> > DSN: dbname=gnumed_v12 host=127.0.0.1 port=5432 user=any-doc
> > password=any-doc sslmode=prefer
> 
> His local PostgreSQL simply isn't configured to accept
> password-based connections or else he doesn't have a local
> database.

He does not have a local database as can be seens from the chat log. He did 
not know he needed one. Little we can do about that.

Sebastian