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Mads Kiilerich

auth: fail pam and internal authentication attempts if no username is provided (Issue #180)

When the Mercurial client communicates with a server over HTTP, it will always
first try to perform operations unauthenticated before providing credentials.
Authentication attempts without credentials is usually pointless and will just
slow operations down.

Some authentication plugins (such as LDAP) already skipped these
unauthenticated requests. Now, do the same for other authentication plugions.

Other authentication plugins also skip if no password is provided ... but that
doesn't seem necessary.

.. _debugging:

===================
Debugging Kallithea
===================

If you encounter problems with Kallithea, here are some instructions
on how to debug them.

.. note:: First make sure you're using the latest version available.


Enable detailed debug
---------------------

Kallithea uses the standard Python ``logging`` module to log its output.
By default only loggers with ``INFO`` level are displayed. To enable full output
change ``level = DEBUG`` for all logging handlers in the currently used .ini file.
This change will allow you to see much more detailed output in the log file or
console. This generally helps a lot to track issues.


Enable interactive debug mode
-----------------------------

To enable interactive debug mode simply comment out ``set debug = false`` in
the .ini file. This will trigger an interactive debugger each time
there is an error in the browser, or send a http link if an error occured in the backend. This
is a great tool for fast debugging as you get a handy Python console right
in the web view.

.. warning:: NEVER ENABLE THIS ON PRODUCTION! The interactive console
             can be a serious security threat to your system.