Logging in to Remote Admin Console

[HipToday]

Is there a particular reason that when connecting to the Remote Admin Console that the user isn't prompted for their username and password?

I'm looking into adding this functionality because I think a simple Username:/Password: prompt would be much more user-friendly than being greeted with the MOTD and then staring at a blinking cursor. It took me a fair amount of searching to find that to log in I needed to enter USER <USERNAME>, then PASS <PASSWORD>, then I'd finally be given the mangos> prompt.

In that searching I came across this thread:

GaME - Yet Another MaNGOS GUI application

Which talks about using the remote console for that application.

I've already hacked together some code that works for me, but before I submit a patch I'd like to know if I need to maintain some backwards compatibility for applications such as the one above, or if there's just a very good reason that I'm unaware of as to why things are the way they are.

[FragFrog]

GaME is easily enough updated if you do submit this, but there are a lot of other applications using it in some form or another (like Minimanager, MicroManager I think and some others) - backwards compatability would be nice.

Personally I dislike the raw remote console alltogether - it only allows a single user to connect and as far as I know everything you can do using RA can also be done with commands ingame. It is one of the reasons I started work on GaME in an attempt to provide a more userfriendly interface to the console commands. As such, I would not waste too much time and effort on this

[HipToday]

Really, the only thing missing from in-game commands (perhaps I just didn't see it) that I wanted to use RA for was account creation. That's how I ended up trying it out in the first place.

Anyway, with or without backwards compatibility I don't think it'll take too much time/effort. I'll give it a shot and see if people want it.

Thanks for the info. I suspected there would be other apps out there that relied on RA.

[freghar]

Well, simply using my brain - all external apps used the "write user and password" mechanism before. Same applies to any application after this change, because a simple printf-like call won't change the whole world, nor make anything "wait" longer for the username/password.

Oh, and about the interface - someone should really make a layer-4 communication protocol for mangos, I believe Derex was talking about something.

[HipToday]

Well, simply using my brain - all external apps used the "write user and password" mechanism before. Same applies to any application after this change, because a simple printf-like call won't change the whole world, nor make anything "wait" longer for the username/password.

Oh, and about the interface - someone should really make a layer-4 communication protocol for mangos, I believe Derex was talking about something.

I don't think I quite understand what you mean. But it sounds like you are confirming it should behave as before unless explicitly told different (i.e. don't change the default behavior).

Maybe a proper layer-4 protocol would be nice, but I actually like the simplicity of the remote admin console. It's exactly what I want, it just took me forever to figure out how to actually login.

[HipToday]

I've submitted a patch:

[PATCH] Add username/password prompts to Remote Admin

First one ever, so be gentle.