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[phpesp-dev] Problems authenticating respondents and other issues

[Kon A. <an...@cp...>]

Guys,

	I need some clariffication on the following:
	please correct me if I'm wrong but if I create a survey that belongs to 
group123 and then make it private I then need to create a respondent account 
for any user that I want to access this survey. The respondent account is 
created with the respondent belonging to the group123 group.
This user would then open his browser go to the appropriate URL and will be 
prompted to authenticate.
	The problem I'm having is that the password that the user enters into the 
authentication prompt keeps failing. Any ideas? Does the fact that phpESP is 
running on a https box at work be causing problems?
	This leads me to another question:
	When I try to download the results of a survey using XP pro I'm getting the 
following message: "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet 
site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try 
again later." but if I immediately change over to my linux box I can download 
the results with mozilla. At home where I also host a copy of phpESP I have 
no problems at all. Originally I thought that it may have been an https issue 
but now I'm not sure ! 
Any ideas???

	Finally, is authhand-prefix.php and authhand-suffix.php still being used? As 
I can't find them in the phpESP-1.4beta3 package nore in the developer or 
public CVS?


Kon

Re: [phpesp-dev] Problems authenticating respondents and other issues

[<fl...@gm...>]

i had problems like that but happend on netscap 4.9. MAC /phpESP 1.3
i just deleted the user and placed the same username und password as new
entry...... WORKS!
as well swiching beetween user and admin account always bit buggy! i need to
close the browser,
and with that i can imaging that there a mistaks when using https...

i did not check if the password has changed in any reason... seems to bee
there is no chance to decode that so nexttime i will check the
results/entrys..in the DB

mayby changing the password authentification for users... this one is really
secure.. but i wanted to do an USER-LOST-PASSWORD feature.... grrr but just
an resetting and rewriting the resetted PW is possible , well

maybe it could help


flobee





Guys,

I need some clariffication on the following:
please correct me if I'm wrong but if I create a survey that belongs to
group123 and then make it private I then need to create a respondent account
for any user that I want to access this survey. The respondent account is
created with the respondent belonging to the group123 group.
This user would then open his browser go to the appropriate URL and will be
prompted to authenticate.
The problem I'm having is that the password that the user enters into the
authentication prompt keeps failing. Any ideas? Does the fact that phpESP is
running on a https box at work be causing problems?
This leads me to another question:
When I try to download the results of a survey using XP pro I'm getting the
following message: "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet
site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please
try
again later." but if I immediately change over to my linux box I can
download
the results with mozilla. At home where I also host a copy of phpESP I have
no problems at all. Originally I thought that it may have been an https
issue
but now I'm not sure !
Any ideas???

Finally, is authhand-prefix.php and authhand-suffix.php still being used? As
I can't find them in the phpESP-1.4beta3 package nore in the developer or
public CVS?


Kon

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Re: [phpesp-dev] Problems authenticating respondents and other issues

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 9 May 2002 fl...@gm... wrote:

> i had problems like that but happend on netscap 4.9.
> MAC /phpESP 1.3 i just deleted the user and placed the
> same username und password as new entry...... WORKS! as
> well swiching beetween user and admin account always
> bit buggy! i need to close the browser, and with that i
> can imaging that there a mistaks when using https...
>
> i did not check if the password has changed in any
> reason... seems to bee there is no chance to decode
> that so nexttime i will check the results/entrys..in
> the DB
>
> mayby changing the password authentification for
> users... this one is really secure.. but i wanted to do
> an USER-LOST-PASSWORD feature.... grrr but just an
> resetting and rewriting the resetted PW is possible ,
> well

You could make a new authentication handler. Copy the
default one and modify it so that it stored passwords in
plaintext, or using reversable encryption. That way you
could recover passwords.

A better solution might be to have a page that a user could
enter their username and email address, and if that user
existed create a random password for them, and email it to
them. That way, you still have encrypted passwords in the
DB, but a user can reset it without admin intervention.

-James

Re: [phpesp-dev] Problems authenticating respondents and other issues

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 9 May 2002, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:

> Guys,
>
> 	I need some clariffication on the following:
> 	please correct me if I'm wrong but if I create a survey that belongs to
> group123 and then make it private I then need to create a respondent account
> for any user that I want to access this survey. The respondent account is
> created with the respondent belonging to the group123 group.
> This user would then open his browser go to the appropriate URL and will be
> prompted to authenticate.
> 	The problem I'm having is that the password that the user enters into the
> authentication prompt keeps failing. Any ideas? Does the fact that phpESP is
> running on a https box at work be causing problems?

That's not exactly how it works. Designers and Respondents
are completely separate entities... So what you want to do
is make the survey private, then click on the survey name
in the "Access" page. This will bring up a page that will
let you choose which groups can fill out the survey, and
how many times they are allowed, then make sure the
Respondent is part of the group.

> 	This leads me to another question:
> 	When I try to download the results of a survey using XP pro I'm getting the
> following message: "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet
> site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try
> again later." but if I immediately change over to my linux box I can download
> the results with mozilla. At home where I also host a copy of phpESP I have
> no problems at all. Originally I thought that it may have been an https issue
> but now I'm not sure !
> Any ideas???

I have no clue on this one. I don't run windows at all so I
cannot really test it. From searching on google it seems to
be a browser problem -- I didn't find any immediate
solutions.

http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Asupport.microsoft.com+%22the+downloaded+file+is+not+available%22

> 	Finally, is authhand-prefix.php and authhand-suffix.php still being used? As
> I can't find them in the phpESP-1.4beta3 package nore in the developer or
> public CVS?

It has all been combined into "handler.php" and
"handler-prefix.php". See the comments inside
handler-prefix on how to use it.

-James

Re: [phpesp-dev] Problems authenticating respondents and other issues

[Kon A. <an...@cp...>]

Thanks James,

I did forget to change things from the access page........

Kon

On Thu, 9 May 2002 12:31, James E. Flemer wrote:
> On Thu, 9 May 2002, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > 	I need some clariffication on the following:
> > 	please correct me if I'm wrong but if I create a survey that belongs to
> > group123 and then make it private I then need to create a respondent
> > account for any user that I want to access this survey. The respondent
> > account is created with the respondent belonging to the group123 group.
> > This user would then open his browser go to the appropriate URL and will
> > be prompted to authenticate.
> > 	The problem I'm having is that the password that the user enters into
> > the authentication prompt keeps failing. Any ideas? Does the fact that
> > phpESP is running on a https box at work be causing problems?
>
> That's not exactly how it works. Designers and Respondents
> are completely separate entities... So what you want to do
> is make the survey private, then click on the survey name
> in the "Access" page. This will bring up a page that will
> let you choose which groups can fill out the survey, and
> how many times they are allowed, then make sure the
> Respondent is part of the group.
>
> > 	This leads me to another question:
> > 	When I try to download the results of a survey using XP pro I'm getting
> > the following message: "Internet Explorer was not able to open this
> > Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be
> > found. Please try again later." but if I immediately change over to my
> > linux box I can download the results with mozilla. At home where I also
> > host a copy of phpESP I have no problems at all. Originally I thought
> > that it may have been an https issue but now I'm not sure !
> > Any ideas???
>
> I have no clue on this one. I don't run windows at all so I
> cannot really test it. From searching on google it seems to
> be a browser problem -- I didn't find any immediate
> solutions.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Asupport.microsoft.com+%22the+downloa
>ded+file+is+not+available%22
>
> > 	Finally, is authhand-prefix.php and authhand-suffix.php still being
> > used? As I can't find them in the phpESP-1.4beta3 package nore in the
> > developer or public CVS?
>
> It has all been combined into "handler.php" and
> "handler-prefix.php". See the comments inside
> handler-prefix on how to use it.
>
> -James