- I decided to remove the entire concept of a root user.
Instead, the host initializes as a blank slate and it
will be up to the host admin to create a rank 1 user via
the new command line option "-add_admin" to do initial
setup with.
- There is no longer such a concept as a protected user.
Meaning even the last rank 1 user in the host database
is allowed to delete or modify the rank of their own
account. To prevent permanent "admin lock out" in this
scenario the "-elevate" command line option was created.
- Host settings are no longer stored in the database.
Instead, host settings are now stored in a conf.json file
in /etc/mrci/conf.json if running on a linux based OS or
in %Programdata%\mrci\conf.json if running on Windows.
- Email templates are no longer stored in the database.
Instead, the templates can be any file formatted in UTF-8
text stored in the host file system. The files they point
to can be modified in the conf.json file.
- The conf file also replaced all use env variables so
MRCI_DB_PATH, MRCI_WORK_DIR, MRCI_PRIV_KEY and
MRCI_PUB_KEY are no longer in use. SSL/TLS cert paths can
be modified in the conf file.
- Removed email template cmds set_email_template and
preview_email.
- Also removed cmds close_host, host_config and
restart_host. The actions these commands could do is best
left to the host system command line.
- The database class will now explicitly check for write
permissions to the database and throw an appropriate
error message if the check fails. "DROP TABLE" SQL
abilities were added to make this happen.
- Removed async cmds exit(3), maxses(5) and restart(11).
changed the TEXT type id format from UTF16LE to UTF8 (no BOM). this
included all displayable text used throughout this project. doing
this reduced overhead because UTF16 strings required 2 bytes per
char while UTF8 runs on 1 byte for char. this string format also
expands support for QTs built in Postgresql driver or any driver
that supports UTF8 unicode only.
added "mod_instructions" to the client header format so the client
applications themselves can send direct command line args to the
modules loaded by the host. note: main.cpp needed to be modified
to check for core module parameters before checking the additional
parameters sent by the client; doing this protects against possible
unintentional core parameters being sent by the client.
added a Q_OS_WINDOWS check to applink.c so this file is completely
ignored when compiling on a Linux platform.
all commands that send emails will now return an appropriate error
message if the internal email client fails for any reason.
added a db_settings.json file that the host will now check for to
get database parameters such as hostname, username, driver and
password. doing this opens up the host to other database drivers
other than SQLITE. if not present, the host will create a default
db_settings file that uses SQLITE.
added the -ls_sql_drvs command line arg that will list all of the
SQL drivers that the host currently has installed and can be used
in the db_settings file.
- added a -host_trig command line option that creates a new host
instance without blocking user input.
- the build/install python scripts will no longer internally build
platform specific shell scripts; instead, they will now copy the
necessary templates from the /templates folder.
- modified both build.py and install.py to include windows
deployment support so this app can now be built/installed on
windows based host. note: i decided to have it "daemonized" as
a scheduled task that runs on system start instead of service
because it is simply easier to do it this way and will not
involve any 3rd party libraries or apps.
- added the src/applink.c file to the source code since it is
needed for windows openssl support.
- changed over all references of "endl" to "Qt::endl" to avoid
depreciation errors/warnings.
Fixed the shebang for the python build/install scripts to properly
point to the correct python executable in linux.
Fixed a bug that caused the host session to return false "command
not found errors" after running any command shortly after
successfully connecting.
- mutiple SSL cert files can now be added to the MRCI_PUB_KEY env variable
via colon seperated ':' path strings to complete the cert chain if such
a thing is required. It is no longer necessary to merge to multiple
certs into one to complete a cert chain.
- added -load_ssl command line option so cert data can be re-loaded in
real time without the need to stop-start the host.
- added more detailed error messages to the SSL loading process for
easier debugging.
- major changes to the build system include the use of python scripts
instead of the linux shell script file.
- linux_build.sh was removed since it is no longer needed.
- the new build process now run 2 python scripts: build.py and then
install.py.
- the resulting installer if built no longer uses makeself. the
installation and/or self extracting process is now handled entirely
by python and the install.py script.
The main reason for this change is to lay the ground work for multi-
platform support. It is still linux only for now but adding windows
support will be much easier in the future thanks to python's cross-
platform support.
