Re: [cpan-questions #32443] Re: rt.cpan.org keeps logging me out.

Hi Karen,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Karen Etheridge <[email protected]> wrote:

> What is the big deal in having to log in again? If you save your
> credentials in your browser, it's literally just one more click.
>
>
The problem is that in order to improve the security of my passwords, I
keep them all encrypted using a master password. Firefox has a built-in
feature for that and, if you don't set a master passwords then the
passwords are stored using a relatively easy-to-reverse process which every
process on the local system can use (or at least those running as the local
user). There's some old discussion of it here:

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ar01s09.html

Since my firefox password is non-trivial, entering it to fill in the
rt.cpan.org password whenever I restart firefox, restart my
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System or restart the machine (for a
new kernel, glibc, etc.) is quite a hassle. What will make my life more
tolerable would be a browser add-on that will allow me to keep the
rt.cpan.org password (and only that) unencrypted (as I already have it in
"~/.pause" anyway).


> I'd like to thank the RT admins in providing this service free to the Perl
> community; it is really awesome that a bug queue is created automatically
> for every distribution without the authors having to do a single thing to
> set it up.
>

I'd like to thank them too, but having to login time and again is still a
fly in the ointment.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish




>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Shawn,
>>
>> sorry for the late response. I'm CCing module-authors becase you did not
>> explicitly specify that you wish this reply to be kept private.
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Shawn M Moore via RT <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri Nov 18 06:01:48 2016, [email protected] wrote:
>>> > Dear rt-cpan-admin
>>>
>>> Hi Shlomi,
>>>
>>> > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Dear sirs and madams,
>>> > >
>>> > > thanks for maintaining http://rt.cpan.org/ .
>>> > >
>>> > > There is, however, a long-standing problem with it that the site keeps
>>> > > logging me out (usually after I close my browser), and I keep having to
>>> > > login again. This makes it frustrating to use rt.cpan.org. Please fix it
>>> > > as soon as possible.
>>>
>>> RT uses session cookies (also called transient cookies) which, as you describe, usually clear when you close your browser. It's a tradeoff we make for security.
>>>
>>> I see. That sounds like a very bad trade off in this day and age,
>> because people often need to reboot for new kernel / new libc / system
>> update / etc. or they need to restart their browsers because they either
>> crashed or started consuming too much RAM (and as you may know - browsers
>> like Firefox or GChromium have recently become memory hogs).
>>
>> I suppose I can convert to use GitHub Issues / GitLab Issues / Bitbucket
>> Issues / etc. - at least for my own CPAN distributions - but this will
>> involve a lot of manual tweaking and uploading new versions. Perhaps it
>> will be the last straw for creating my own Dist Zilla PluginBundle.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- Shlomi Fish
>>
>>
>>
>>> > > Regards,
>>> > >
>>> > > -- Shlomi Fish
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Shawn
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/
>>
>> You can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it
>> in the original Klingon.
>>
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>> .
>>
>
>


-- 
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