Re: [webmin-devel] [feature request] new password type for modules' configuration

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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Martin Mewes wrote:

> Hi Emmanuel, hi Jamie
>
> Emmanuel Saracco wrote:
>
> > "simple", that means: only a <input type="password" name="var"
> > value="">, and nothing else (no radios for exemple :-) ).
>
> This problem comes up in the module configurationof the current
> wbmtranslator as it is able to use smtp-auth to a remote system.
>
> The current "12" shows something like this ...
>
> [ ] no change [ ] set to ___________________
>
> which is really confusing, because it does not make sense i this
> particular section.
>
> What wbmtranslator needs is just something like
>
> SMTP-Password: ____________________
>
> or to be just able to read the settings from the "Read Mail"-Module.
>
> Jamie, can you please point us into the direction for the inclusion of
> the "Read Mail"-Module? This would make things easier I think.
>
>
> bis dahin - kind regards
>
> Martin Mewes
>

  No, I think that it still makes sense because of the reasons I outlined
in my previous post.  The password that might be used in "Module
Configuration"  is saved in the current module's configuration space so it
can be used when the module is run.  The module still needs to know that
the user intended to change the password.

  If the password is only relevant in this current session, then it might
be more practical to have a way for the user to enter a password upon
entering the module, or build it into the ACL list so it can be different
for each user.

  Or even thinking about this some while writting this message, would be a
password setting that can be different for each webmin user, and would be
changed based on the $remote_user value when the module configuration is
called (this might be the better feature request - and something that I
have thought about for the MySQL module for a while, maybe I can
prototype this feature for this module).


	---- Randy