[db-wg] Suggestion for a way to retrieve filtered objects

Hi,

and thanks for bringing this up.

This isn't particularly directed at you, I'm sure you can see...

> So now, instead of having a chance to get rid of shared
> passwords/passphrases, everybody needs to have one, because of the
> way objects are filtered.

I'd say that's the wrong direction to lead people.

> Of course, the other solution is to just get hold of all the people
> with an auth: MD5 line and make them take it out, that way you can
> get the full object without authenticating on the webupdater.

Do you need to specify any special options to whois to get the auth:
lines from the maintainer object?  We have a maintainer object where
I'm pretty sure that all the auth: lines are of PGP- style, but whois
is still not displaying those lines.  Trying to use

  https://apps.db.ripe.net/webupdates/search.html

it asks me for "password".  What password?!?  No, I have not used
webupdates before, and have no particular desire to start using it
now.  Is there no way around this?

I really, Really, dislike this change in behaviour, since we are now
effectively cut off from updating our maintainer object -- we keep no
local copy of the object, and want to use the one stored in the RIPE
database as the authoritative data source.  Now we can't do that.
Argh!

Regards,

- Håvard