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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0010025 | Taler | merchant backend | public | 2025-05-26 19:24 | 2025-05-27 16:44 |
| Reporter | Florian Dold | Assigned To | Florian Dold | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 1.0 | ||||
| Target Version | post-1.0 | ||||
| Summary | 0010025: merchant backend blocks creation of admin instance when another instance has been created | ||||
| Description | It's currently/unexpectedly possible to create a non-admin instance before the admin instance has been configured. It's very difficult to get out of this situation, since taler-merchant-passwd doesn't work if the instance hasn't been created in the first place. Only option to fix this is to purge the instance and re-create everything. We should avoid getting into this in the first place, either by: (a) disallowing the creation of a non-admin instance before the admin instance has been configured (b) still allowing the admin instance to be created if other instances have been created | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Eh, that was actually seen as a feature: create a non-admin instance to enforce single-instance use, or delete your admin account to lock down a system and prevent direct interference with instances via the admin account. Maybe we should document this more, but I consider this not a bad feature to have! |
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Problem is: This is a state that we can't recover from. It IMO should always be possible to change easily the admin credentials when you have root on the server. => As discussed offline, taler-merchant-passwd should simply create a (dummy, unconfigured) admin instance so that the admin password can be set. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2025-05-26 19:24 | Florian Dold | New Issue | |
| 2025-05-27 09:03 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0025016 | |
| 2025-05-27 09:03 | Christian Grothoff | Severity | minor => tweak |
| 2025-05-27 09:03 | Christian Grothoff | Status | new => acknowledged |
| 2025-05-27 09:03 | Christian Grothoff | Product Version | => 1.0 |
| 2025-05-27 09:03 | Christian Grothoff | Target Version | 1.0 stretch goals => post-1.0 |
| 2025-05-27 16:44 | Florian Dold | Note Added: 0025025 | |
| 2025-05-27 16:44 | Florian Dold | Assigned To | => Florian Dold |
| 2025-05-27 16:44 | Florian Dold | Status | acknowledged => assigned |
