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Re: DHIS2 demo admin password

 

There are at least 4-5 different ways of doing it though...
/api/userAccount, /api/me, any kind of user import etc...

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Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Jason Pickering <
jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That sounds like perhaps the best way to me.
>
> Just block POST to
>
> https://play.dhis2.org/dhis-web-commons-about/updateUserAccount.action
>
> and perhaps its API equivalent if it exists?
>
> Are there other ways?
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Could we use nginx to prevent access to the action. Redirect to somewhere
>> punitive :-)
>> On 24 May 2016 03:38, "Morten Olav Hansen" <morten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I agree that it would be helpful. A couple of issues:
>>>
>>> 1) If using the web-api, it would require it to be a valid password, so
>>> "district" would no longer work (District1?)
>>>
>>> 2) If instead injecting with SQL, one would also have to clear the cache
>>>
>>> --
>>> Morten Olav Hansen
>>> Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
>>> University of Oslo
>>> http://www.dhis2.org
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:37 AM, John Mukulu <john.f.mukulu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I concur,
>>>> Or even a simple repeated 5 mins cronjob script to reset the password
>>>> via API.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Jim Grace <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sounds reasonable to me.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Jason Pickering <
>>>>> jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Increasingly people change the password of the demo server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can we put a database trigger in place to prevent this from being
>>>>>> changed? It causes problems for people in general.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Jason
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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