[Dxspider-support] No password request ?

[Dirk Koopman]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 00:31 +0100, Hans-Juergen Barthen wrote:
> Hello !
> Hopefully somebody can give me a short hint for my following problem:
> 
> I found that my spider does not request any login password.
> 
> - the password is configured in /spider/local/scripts/startup like described 
> in  the documentation with set/var $main::passwdreq = 1
> 
> - when I check it with 'show/var $main::passwdreg' from the console spider shows '1'
> 
> - the logfile shows after a new start:
> 
> 1109199505^cluster^DXSpider V1.51, build 59.332 started
> 1109199505^DXCommand^DB0LJ-6 set $Spot::maxspots = 100
> 1109199505^DXCommand^DB0LJ-6 set $main::passwdreq = 1 
> 
> Then I checked some parts of the perl source and found that spider obviously checks
> if an incoming call is from localhost, in that case no password seems to be required.
> So I connected from the internet and checked with netstat:
> 
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:41112           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:52863         127.0.0.1:41112         ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:41112         127.0.0.1:52863         ESTABLISHED 
> tcp        0      0 192.168.42.81:41112     84.129.61.223:2917      ESTABLISHED  


Remove any mention of /spider/src/client from (x)inetd and follow the
instructions in
http://www.dxcluster.org/main/installation_en-4.html#ss4.2

Dirk