Bug 714201

A BZ login test button sounds like a good idea.

ABRT has a bit of a learning curve, but you can verify your login credentials in F15 by running "abrt-gui" from the command-line or from the Applications page. Select Edit:Event configuration:Bugzilla. You can also try resubmitting your bug from abrt-gui.

(In reply to comment #0)
> The first time the crash reporter runs it offers to report to Bugzilla.  You
> enter your username and password for the site.  But there is no feedback if the
> username and password combination is not correct, and no chance to correct it
> later.  This is particularly annoying if the crash happens at login, before the
> desktop environment has come up, so the only thing on your screen is the crash
> reporter and you have no ability to bring up a web browser to check.
> 
> Could I make a few feature suggestions?
> 
> - When entering the username and password for Bugzilla, a 'test' button should
> attempt a login and report success or failure.
> 

- doable, but definitely not high priority

> - If at the last stage of bug reporting the submission failed, it should be
> possible to go back and try other methods to report the crash, rather than just
> saving it in a log file and exiting.

- it is now possible

> 
> - It might be more useful for the tool to have its own specific Bugzilla
> account set up where it can report crashes.  After the crash is reported, users
> who have a Bugzilla account of their own could go to the site and change
> ownership.
> 

- no, it could be used to spam bugzilla

> Perhaps I've misunderstood things and the tool already is capable of reporting
> crashes without the need to enter your own Bugzilla username and password.  If
> so, this could be made more obvious in the GUI.

We can extend the xml event description to achieve this:

- we can define a command to run to test the plugin/event which could be just a simple shell script, which returns 0 - OK something else - NOT OK

<testsettings>report-bugzilla -dry -u $Bugzilla_USER -p $Bugzilla_PASS</testsettings>

- this ^ would just try to login to bugzilla with the provided credentials and returns 0 - successfully logged or !0 login failed and the UI can just display whatever output the plugin prints on stdout

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