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>4.2. Optional Additional Configuration</H1
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><H2
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><A
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>4.2.1. Dependency Charts</H2
><P
>As well as the text-based dependency graphs, Bugzilla also
      supports dependency graphing, using a package called 'dot'.
      Exactly how this works is controlled by the 'webdotbase' parameter,
      which can have one of three values:
      </P
><P
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><OL
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><P
>&#13;            A complete file path to the command 'dot' (part of 
            <A
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>) 
            will generate the graphs locally
            </P
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>&#13;            A URL prefix pointing to an installation of the webdot package will
            generate the graphs remotely
            </P
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>&#13;            A blank value will disable dependency graphing.
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      </P
><P
>So, to get this working, install
      <A
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>GraphViz</A
>. If you
      do that, you need to
      <A
HREF="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_imap.html"
TARGET="_top"
>enable
      server-side image maps</A
> in Apache.
      Alternatively, you could set up a webdot server, or use the AT&#38;T 
      public webdot server (the
      default for the webdotbase param). Note that AT&#38;T's server won't work
      if Bugzilla is only accessible using HARTS.
      </P
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>4.2.2. Bug Graphs</H2
><P
>As long as you installed the GD and Graph::Base Perl modules you
      might as well turn on the nifty Bugzilla bug reporting graphs.</P
><P
>Add a cron entry like this to run 
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>collectstats.pl</TT
> 
      daily at 5 after midnight: 
      <P
></P
><TABLE
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>&#13;          <TT
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>&#13;            <TT
CLASS="prompt"
>bash#</TT
>

            <B
CLASS="command"
>crontab -e</B
>
          </TT
>
        </TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
>&#13;          <TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
>5 0 * * * cd &#60;your-bugzilla-directory&#62; ;
          ./collectstats.pl</TT
>
        </TD
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>
      </P
><P
>After two days have passed you'll be able to view bug graphs from
      the Bug Reports page.</P
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><H2
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><A
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></A
>4.2.3. The Whining Cron</H2
><P
>By now you have a fully functional Bugzilla, but what good are
      bugs if they're not annoying? To help make those bugs more annoying you
      can set up Bugzilla's automatic whining system to complain at engineers
      which leave their bugs in the NEW state without triaging them.
      </P
><P
>&#13;      This can be done by
      adding the following command as a daily crontab entry (for help on that
      see that crontab man page): 
      <P
></P
><TABLE
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><TBODY
><TR
><TD
>&#13;          <TT
CLASS="computeroutput"
>&#13;            <B
CLASS="command"
>cd &#60;your-bugzilla-directory&#62; ;
            ./whineatnews.pl</B
>
          </TT
>
        </TD
></TR
></TBODY
></TABLE
><P
></P
>
      </P
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><P
>Depending on your system, crontab may have several manpages.
        The following command should lead you to the most useful page for
        this purpose: 
        <TABLE
BORDER="0"
BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0"
WIDTH="100%"
><TR
><TD
><FONT
COLOR="#000000"
><PRE
CLASS="programlisting"
>&#13;man 5 crontab
	</PRE
></FONT
></TD
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>
        </P
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><H2
CLASS="section"
><A
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>4.2.4. LDAP Authentication</H2
><P
>&#13;        <DIV
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><P
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><P
>This information on using the LDAP
            authentication options with Bugzilla is old, and the authors do
            not know of anyone who has tested it. Approach with caution.
          </P
></TD
></TR
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></DIV
>
      </P
><P
>&#13;      The existing authentication
      scheme for Bugzilla uses email addresses as the primary user ID, and a
      password to authenticate that user. All places within Bugzilla where
      you need to deal with user ID (e.g assigning a bug) use the email
      address. The LDAP authentication builds on top of this scheme, rather
      than replacing it. The initial log in is done with a username and
      password for the LDAP directory. This then fetches the email address
      from LDAP and authenticates seamlessly in the standard Bugzilla
      authentication scheme using this email address. If an account for this
      address already exists in your Bugzilla system, it will log in to that
      account. If no account for that email address exists, one is created at
      the time of login. (In this case, Bugzilla will attempt to use the
      "displayName" or "cn" attribute to determine the user's full name.)
      After authentication, all other user-related tasks are still handled by
      email address, not LDAP username. You still assign bugs by email
      address, query on users by email address, etc.
      </P
><P
>Using LDAP for Bugzilla authentication requires the 
      Mozilla::LDAP (aka PerLDAP) Perl module. The
      Mozilla::LDAP module in turn requires Netscape's Directory SDK for C.
      After you have installed the SDK, then install the PerLDAP module.
      Mozilla::LDAP and the Directory SDK for C are both 
      <A
HREF="http://www.mozilla.org/directory/"
TARGET="_top"
>available for
      download</A
> from mozilla.org. 
      </P
><P
>&#13;      Set the Param 'useLDAP' to "On" **only** if you will be using an LDAP
      directory for
      authentication. Be very careful when setting up this parameter; if you
      set LDAP authentication, but do not have a valid LDAP directory set up,
      you will not be able to log back in to Bugzilla once you log out. (If
      this happens, you can get back in by manually editing the data/params
      file, and setting useLDAP back to 0.)
      </P
><P
>If using LDAP, you must set the
      three additional parameters: Set LDAPserver to the name (and optionally
      port) of your LDAP server. If no port is specified, it defaults to the
      default port of 389. (e.g "ldap.mycompany.com" or
      "ldap.mycompany.com:1234") Set LDAPBaseDN to the base DN for searching
      for users in your LDAP directory. (e.g. "ou=People,o=MyCompany") uids
      must be unique under the DN specified here. Set LDAPmailattribute to
      the name of the attribute in your LDAP directory which contains the
      primary email address. On most directory servers available, this is
      "mail", but you may need to change this.
      </P
><P
>You can also try using <A
HREF="http://www.openldap.org/"
TARGET="_top"
>&#13;      OpenLDAP</A
> with Bugzilla, using any of a number of administration
      tools.  You should apply the patch attached this bug:
      <A
HREF="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158630"
TARGET="_top"
>&#13;      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158630</A
>, then set
      the following object classes for your users:

      <P
></P
><OL
TYPE="1"
><LI
><P
>objectClass: person</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>objectClass: organizationalPerson</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>objectClass: inetOrgPerson</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>objectClass: top</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>objectClass: posixAccount</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>objectClass: shadowAccount</P
></LI
></OL
>

      Please note that this patch <EM
>has not</EM
> yet been
      accepted by the Bugzilla team, and so you may need to do some
      manual tweaking.  That said, it looks like Net::LDAP is probably
      the way to go in the future.
      </P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="section"
><H2
CLASS="section"
><A
NAME="content-type"
></A
>4.2.5. Preventing untrusted Bugzilla content from executing malicious
      Javascript code</H2
><P
>It is possible for a Bugzilla to execute malicious Javascript
      code. Due to internationalization concerns, we are unable to
      incorporate the code changes necessary to fulfill the CERT advisory
      requirements mentioned in 
      <A
HREF="http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3"
TARGET="_top"
>&#13;      http://www.cet.org/tech_tips/malicious_code_mitigation.html/#3</A
>.
      Executing the following code snippet from a UNIX command shell will
      rectify the problem if your Bugzilla installation is intended for an
      English-speaking audience. As always, be sure your Bugzilla
      installation has a good backup before making changes, and I recommend
      you understand what the script is doing before executing it.</P
><P
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><PRE
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        </PRE
></FONT
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>
      </P
><P
>All this one-liner command does is search for all instances of 
      <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Content-type: text/html"</SPAN
>

      and replaces it with 
      <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"</SPAN
>

      . This specification prevents possible Javascript attacks on the
      browser, and is suggested for all English-speaking sites. For
      non-English-speaking Bugzilla sites, I suggest changing 
      <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"ISO-8859-1"</SPAN
>, above, to 
      <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"UTF-8"</SPAN
>.</P
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><P
>Using &#60;meta&#62; tags to set the charset is not
        recommended, as there's a bug in Netscape 4.x which causes pages
        marked up in this way to load twice. See 
        <A
HREF="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126266"
TARGET="_top"
>bug
        126266</A
> for more information including progress toward making
        bugzilla charset aware by default.
        </P
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CLASS="section"
><A
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></A
>4.2.6. <TT
CLASS="filename"
>directoryindex</TT
> for the Bugzilla default page.</H2
><P
>You should modify the &#60;DirectoryIndex&#62; parameter for
      the Apache virtual host running your Bugzilla installation to
      allow <TT
CLASS="filename"
>index.cgi</TT
> as the index page for a
      directory, as well as the usual <TT
CLASS="filename"
>index.html</TT
>,
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>index.htm</TT
>, and so forth. </P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="section"
><H2
CLASS="section"
><A
NAME="mod_perl"
></A
>4.2.7. Bugzilla and <TT
CLASS="filename"
>mod_perl</TT
></H2
><P
>Bugzilla is unsupported under mod_perl.  Effort is underway
      to make it work cleanly in a mod_perl environment, but it is
      slow going.
      </P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="section"
><H2
CLASS="section"
><A
NAME="mod-throttle"
></A
>4.2.8. <TT
CLASS="filename"
>mod_throttle</TT
>

      and Security</H2
><P
>It is possible for a user, by mistake or on purpose, to access
      the database many times in a row which can result in very slow access
      speeds for other users. If your Bugzilla installation is experiencing
      this problem , you may install the Apache module 
      <TT
CLASS="filename"
>mod_throttle</TT
>

      which can limit connections by ip-address. You may download this module
      at 
      <A
HREF="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/"
TARGET="_top"
>&#13;      http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/</A
>. 
      Follow the instructions to install into your Apache install. 
      <EM
>This module only functions with the Apache web
      server!</EM
>
      You may use the 
      <B
CLASS="command"
>ThrottleClientIP</B
>

      command provided by this module to accomplish this goal. See the 
      <A
HREF="http://www.snert.com/Software/Throttle/"
TARGET="_top"
>Module
      Instructions</A
>
      for more information.</P
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