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Mariko Bloomgren

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:01:31 PM8/3/24

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Sometimes there is a need to password-protect your web-server, either in whole or just some parts of it.That's were this little package comes in.It offers to simply integrate the popular BasicAuth mechanism into your own web-server.

PassList provides an easy way to handle HTTP Basic Authentication by simply calling the package's Wrap() function and implementing the TAuthDecider interface which only requires the single function or method

However, the package provides a TPassList class with methods to work with a username/password list.It's fairly well documented, so it shouldn't be too hard to use it on your own if you don't like the automatic handling provided by Wrap().You can create a new instance by either calling passlist.LoadPasswords(aFilename string) (which, as its name says, tries to load the given password file at once), or you call passlist.NewList(aFilename string) (which leaves it to you when to actually read the password file by calling the TPassList object's Load() method).

There's an additional convenience function called passlist.Deny() which sends an "Unauthorised" notice to the remote host in case the remote user couldn't be authenticated; this function is called internally whenever your TAuthDecider required authentication and wasn't given valid credentials from the remote user.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modifyit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published bythe Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

pfSense uses a version of Suricata that is extended with some extra functionality. I believe the passlist you mention is one of those things. So I think the best thing to do would be to go through the pfSense support channels.

So, the belief is that there were multiple Suricata processes that were running at the time. The GUI locks on to the PID of the first process. If other processes also load then they have their own PIDs. When reloading or restarting the service or the interface it only does the it on the PID it is aware of. It seems the solution would be to:

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Passlist - the exam preparation website built in collaboration with colleagues and authors in Nigeria aimed at supporting candidates for the West African College of Surgeons exam - now has its own sign up / sign in facility. Another small step towards a fully fledged medical education website ... and learners are already signing up. (Apologies for the full-on orthopaedic picture on the front page but passlist is currently focussed on all things surgical).

It is available at so please feel free to sign up - especially if you are interested in anatomy and surgery. More Multiple Choice Questions MCQs are being authored and will appear on the site soon. It uses a new HTML5 question delivery mechanism that we built as an offshoot of tblable - another MCQ project I wrote about before.

It has been great working with Jonathan Ajah Specialty Registrar in Surgery at Jos University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria and we are really looking forward to delivering the MCQs in time for the next exam.

Passlist is about collaboration: UK and Nigeria, Physicians and Surgeons, IT geeks and authors. It is the bringing together of technical, editorial, and subject expertise to deliver a new exam prep product that would otherwise take a lot longer to deliver.