perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Daniel Doyle <>]

Hi George,

I’m not entirely sure what you’re trying to do here. You’re trying to add Apache basic auth to the toolkit (the popup that prompts someone for a username / password), or you’re trying to specify a particular message when that happens? This is something inherent to Apache and not something the toolkit has a lot of control over outside of setting the AuthName value.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_authn_core.html#authname

It sounds like what you’re describing is maybe a “message of the day” type thing, which could be a feature request for the UI in the future. Is that accurate?

Dan Doyle
GlobalNOC Software Developer
1-812-856-3892

On Mar 3, 2016, at 4:05 PM, Uhl, George D. (GSFC-423.0)[SGT INC] <> wrote:

During my last security audit I was pinged for not having a warning banner pop up when a  user logs into the ps-toolkit page.  There is a pop up window for entering the username/password window but the length of the required warning banner is too long for the login message field.  I’ve tried FF and Chrome and I can’t get the entire warning to display so  I can’t use Apache's AuthName directive for this.

A separate pop window would be great and I tried that with a _javascript_ alert – but it wouldn’t display.  Any suggestions?

Thanks,

George