Hi John
Thanks for your reply.
I will do some more test, and then add a comment in the wiki
Hans-Rudolf
On 07/25/2016 03:05 PM, John Chilton wrote:
I can't confirm it is going to work without negative
repercussions - I
can only say that I cannot think of any non-obvious problems that
would result from doing this. It seems like it is going to be the
right thing to do in your case (but no promises :)).
If it works, it would be super awesome if you update the wiki - thanks
for taking the time to do that!
-John
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Hans-Rudolf Hotz <hrh(a)fmi.ch> wrote:
> Dear all
>
>
> Our production server uses Apache to handle external user authentication.
>
> I have now set up a new test server (16.04) which handles external user
> authentication via LDAP using the auth_conf file. This works nicely when
> using an empty database (I have managed to solve all last weeks problems).
>
>
> I have now connected my test server to a copy of the PostgreSQL database
> used on our production server. I try to log in, and I get:
>
> "This account was created for use with an external authentication method,
> contact...)
>
> and the login fails.
>
>
> If I now set external = 'f' in the galaxy_user table, it works
>
>
> Since manually modifying the database is a bad thing, I just want to double
> check, whether this is the right way to do it?
>
>
> If so, I will add a line or two to the wiki
>
>
> Many thanks for your help
> Hans-Rudolf
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> Hans-Rudolf Hotz, PhD
> Bioinformatics Support
>
> Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
> Maulbeerstrasse 66
> 4058 Basel/Switzerland
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