[Phpmyadmin-devel] about ShowServerInfo

[Michal Čihař]

Hi

Dne Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:16:21 -0500
Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):

> Herman van Rink a écrit :
> > Marc Delisle wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> in the doc we say:
> >> $cfg['ShowServerInfo'] boolean
> >>      Defines whether to display detailed server information on main 
> >> page. (...)
> >>
> >> Currently, this parameter, when false, only hides the protocol version, 
> >> the logged-in user and the server's full name (next to the verbose name).
> >>
> >> It's true that this parameter is poorly named (it should have been 
> >> ShowDetailedMySQLInfo). We got a request to remove all web server info 
> >> and MySQL server info from the main page when this parameter is set to 
> >> false. I think this would be appropriate.
> >>
> >> Comments?
> >>   
> > I can imagine that some people would rather obscure these facts from view.
> > So yes, lets make ShowServerInfo realy mean all that server info.

Makes sense to me.

> > In that same reasoning maybe we should also offer an option to not
> > display the phpMyAdmin version.
> 
> Hmmm, well ... it is present also in Documentation.html and 
> translators.html. What do you have in mind with this, obscuring for 
> security purposes?

It does not make sense, you need to include the version there so that
people know for which version the documentation is.


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	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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