BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing your login user

2008-05-07 23:19:35
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Changing your login user
From: Stephen Joyce <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu>
To: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 23:19:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ambrose Li wrote:

> First, I think the 'link' line could be rewritten thus (bypassing the
> customization step):
> 'link' => eval { my $a = CGI::url(); $a =~ s{:/+}{://nouser:nopass\@}; $a },

Thanks. I was looking for a way to do that...

> Second, I tried it on my backuppc. If I use the back button I find that
> I'm still logged in. It seems that what that link does it just to redirect
> you to a nouser AT example DOT com address which has no perms, but
> if you go back to your regular example.com address (without the
> nouser@ part) you still have your logged-in perms. I guess you
> can't really log yourself out like this.

Well your first observation is true, but not your second; if you click 
the back button then try to click on any links or reload the page, you're 
prompted for credentials. By clicking back, you're only accessing your 
browser's cache.


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