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Hi, after switching to SVN-1545 (Windows XP SP2) when I want to open the web admin interface IE 7 comes with a message, stating that Server localhost requires a user-id and password. I have no clue to what these might be and in previous versions I did not get that question.
Moreover (as I just discovered) my Soundbridge also wants a password (while the security checkbox in the media server is empty)… and obviously I do not know that password either. When I do put a password in the security area of the media server (and mark the checkbox) I can enter the music library with that password. After unchecking the security checkbox again the Soundbridge still requires a password (which is my previously entered one) but does not give acces to the web admin interface (no password).
SVN 1546 perhaps?
@hans.t wrote:
Hi, after switching to SVN-1545 (Windows XP SP2) when I want to open the web admin interface IE 7 comes with a message, stating that Server localhost requires a user-id and password. I have no clue to what these might be and in previous versions I did not get that question.
It’s probably “firefly”.
Moreover (as I just discovered) my Soundbridge also wants a password (while the security checkbox in the media server is empty)… and obviously I do not know that password either. When I do put a password in the security area of the media server (and mark the checkbox) I can enter the music library with that password. After unchecking the security checkbox again the Soundbridge still requires a password (which is my previously entered one) but does not give acces to the web admin interface (no password).
That’s a bug!
— Ron
Ron, bad news. This bug was not completely fixed in 1549! My soundbridge is now available without password, but I still can not get into the web admin interface (asks for user-id and password).
@hans.t wrote:
Ron, bad news. This bug was not completely fixed in 1549! My soundbridge is now available without password, but I still can not get into the web admin interface (asks for user-id and password).
That’s “normal new”. I had it set up so that you didn’t have to have a password to connect from the local machine to the web interface ever. But that means that anyone sitting down at the machine can access the web interface. Which is bad on a multi-user system, like a unix machine or a windows terminal server, or when fast user switching is enabled, etc.
So instead it’s now set so that you don’t need a password from localhost only if the admin password isn’t already set.
I think for some of the first builds I set the default password to “firefly”. I’m not sure how to fix that, except maybe turn off the password on an install if it’s already set to “firefly”. Then you won’t need a password from localhost (just like before), and people can still change the password if they want.
Does that make sense?
To be honest: not a lot. But I can grasp the solution.
I can acces the web admin interface using as user-id and password both “firefly” (without the “-s of course). And then I can delete the requires passwords.
So the solution has been presented. Big thanks!
@hans.t wrote:
To be honest: not a lot. But I can grasp the solution.
I can acces the web admin interface using as user-id and password both “firefly” (without the “-s of course). And then I can delete the requires passwords.
So the solution has been presented. Big thanks!
Correct… if the new behavior isn’t good, then deleting the admin password will make it passwordless from the server machine, and not accessible remotely, which is a safe way to run it.
— Ron
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