Author: shaned

Hi Brian,
>
> sorry, just incredibly busy at the moment — didn’t even get a break
> over the weekend
>
>
> On 14 Mar 2005, at 2:24 pm, Shane Michael Dempsey wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> > A few comments about Brian’s installation of our Secure Networks
> > “Camera
> > Viewer” web application.
> >
> > 1) He can’t change the access rights for the camera using the
> > administration
> > pages.
>
> Yes he can, and he has done. Or his engineer has. The superuser creates
> locations, adds cameras and users to them and nominated a location
> administrator for each one. Log in with user/pass localadmin/localadmin
> and you’ll see the changes he’s made.

OK, well he didn’t know about that himself.. He’s been trying to make those
changes using the admin/admin user which obviously enough isn’t working.
I’ll let him know..

>
> > 2) In attempting to fix a problem with the current system. Don’t
> > reinstall
> > your files on the server. The ownership of the files used by the run
> > script
> > in the /etc/init.d dir should be user: nobody & group: daemon. Your
> > script
> > copies over them with files that are owned by brian/user..
>
> What script ? There is no install script. The PHP application is just a
> tarball . It doesn’t touch any log files. If these are being changed
> its most likely down to Brian and his prize winning engineer.

Shit.. well I’ve changed their ownership 3 times now and somebody keeps
changing them back. Getting a bit pissed off .. I think I’ll write a cron
job to change the ownership back every few minutes.

>
> > 5) My stream server is receiving requests for a camera with id 4. It
> > finds
> > the camera in the database but there’s an access restriction. This is
> > most
> > confusing . from reading the code in the server again I’m not sure why
> > this
> > is the case. The database has the correct session with seemingly the
> > correct
> > accdata. The user (testuser) IS authorised to use that camera. The java
> > server isn’t telling me it can’t connect to the database.. I’m sure
> > there’s
> > something wrong as we keep returning a null URL but I’m not quite sure
> > what
> > it is yet. I’d appreciate it if you could take a look.
> >
>
> From the video servers log, it throws a null pointer exception. Can you
> take a look at this running in the debugger and see where that occurs ?
> I’m kinda pushed on time at the moment, it’ll be later on this evening
> before I get to look at it in any detail.
>
It has thrown this ONCE. The rest of the time it’s not throwing an
exception, just failing to parse the accdata for some reason that I’m not
sure of and outputting the aforementioned SECURITY RESTRICTION.. .
Check the code for HTTPRequestHandler line 163. It only throws this error
when
1) it can’t contact the database
2) it fails to parse the accdata..
3) the accdata says that the camera can’t be accessed..
Hhmm.. I’ll run a few more tests on the box tonight..

regards,

…shane

Hi Miguel,

Here’s are the points that we discussed at the meeting:

—————————————————————————-

1. modify menus on the securist site so that they match those on the
ist-daidalos.
home, partners, secure area, overview, contact, events. (coordinator is Willie
Donnelly)
(project coord wdonnelly, project manager jim clarke)

Information outstanding on partners (names, contact & logos), events.

2. create a separate login page for securist and remove the login link from the
main page.

3. look at the consistency of the menus for the securitytaskforce site.

4. check search facility to ensure that it covers the entire site.

5. obtain small blurb about partners/involvement in the taskforce for partners
section…

6. add Research groups section (which describes the taskforces’s strategic
initiatives)

7. Add registration form for stf events. (based on
http://www.securitytaskforce.org/registration.html)

8. update a newsflash with information on the workshop. Take from the existing
securitytaskforce site…

—————————————————————————-

regards,

…shane

Quoting Miguel Ponce de Leon :

> Shane,
>
> Works for me. Could we make it 15:30pm?
>
> Miguel.
>
> Shane Michael Dempsey wrote:
>
> >Hi Miguel,
> >I’m glad that you’re happy with our current development work on both
> >websites. We can meet up on Monday afternoon, preferrably after 14:00, to
> >discuss progress on the site. Would that be acceptable?
> >
> >regards,
> >
> > …shane
> >
> >
> >//=============================
> >// Shane Dempsey
> >// Technical Director,
> >// Gaisan Technologies Ltd.
> >// e: sdempsey@gaisan.com
> >// u: http://www.gaisan.com
> >// t: +353 051 844810
> >//=============================
> >
> >
> >
> >>—–Original Message—–
> >>From: Miguel Ponce de Leon [mailto:miguelpdl@tssg.org]
> >>Sent: 11 March 2005 17:50
> >>To: Shane Michael Dempsey
> >>Subject: Re: have a look at
> >>
> >>Shane,
> >>
> >> I’ve been away for a couple of days so late response. I’m happy with
> >>the way this is shaping up, one comment I would like to see the menu of
> >>the left to be more consistent with the horizontal menu over the main
> >>frame?
> >>
> >> Friday is now gone we have to meet Monday afternoon to finalise the
> >>”Going Live stage” Can we meet?
> >>
> >>Miguel.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Shane Michael Dempsey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi Miguel,
> >>>We’re still working on text, graphics and animation. However, you can get
> >>>
> >>>
> >>an
> >>
> >>
> >>>idea of the look and feel of the securitytaskforce site from
> >>>http://www.gaisan-projects.com/security_taskforce/
> >>>We’re currently working on the groupware integration for this site.
> >>>
> >>>Sincerest regards,
> >>>
> >>> …shane
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
>

“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men
are able to understand them.” – Paolo Coehlo, The Alchemist.

Hi Jerry,
Here’s a summary of Brian’s problems.
We’ve a camera server set up on port 9000. This doesn’t seem to be
accessible through secure HTTP for some reason. I’ve enabled a NAT
passthrough on the wireless router for port 443 (works) and port 9000
(doesn’t seem to) I know it’s not working as the camera server isn’t
generating any trace when I try to connect to the stream over the internet.
I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a firewall blocking port 9000 as I can
connect to that port from the box itself, just not from any other machine on
it’s local network or over the internet (despite the NAT mapping). It’s a
bit of a pain in the arse to be honest..

The wireless router details are
IP: http://213.190.145.109/
Username: superuser
Password: test060305

The server details are
IP: 213.190.145.109
Username: root
Password: test060305

The camera details are
https://213.190.145.109/
username: testuser
password: testuser

Let me know what you come up with.

Sincerest regards,

…shane

//=============================
// Shane Dempsey
// Technical Director,
// Gaisan Technologies Ltd.
// e: sdempsey@gaisan.com
// u: http://www.gaisan.com
// t: +353 051 844810
//=============================