[Pmwiki-users] Password problem

[John Coxon]

Anyone have any thoughts on how I can diagnose this looping edit 
problem? My knowledge of PHP is too limited to get me through this one.

I've set the edit password in the config.php script to 
$DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('abc')  at 
http://www.coxontool.com/collectanea/ so you can check it out. Edita 
page & either save or preview it to start the loop.

Many thanks in advance,
John


On Dec 26, 2004, at 8:57 AM, John Coxon wrote:

> Maybe someone can shed some light on this little problem I'm having 
> with passwords.
>
> I've been running v2.0b10 as a wikifarm and just upgraded to v2.0b13 
> with no change in this behavior.
>
> In building my site I set passwords in the field local/config.php 
> files:
>
> $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('xxx');
> $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('xxx');
>
> I thought this was working as it should but now I'm not so sure :-) I 
> now realize that sessions were never timing out. Once I started my 
> browser and visited a page for an edit, after the initial password 
> request I never got another password request on that page or anywhere 
> else in the farm, even if I came back days later (assuming the browser 
> was still running - or at least I think it was; maybe I'm just 
> confusing the issue here)
>
> Anyway, on to the problem of the day. Today I went to a page, made a 
> large, time consuming edit - and lost it (grumble - growl). When I 
> went to save it, I was asked for my password and since I had been 
> editing for some time I thought maybe the session had expired. I 
> entered the password and was looped back to the original unedited 
> page.
>
> I subsequently tried a test edit and preview instead of save. Same 
> thing, a password request and a loop back to the original edit screen, 
> no preview showing.
>
> I then deleted the PHPSESSIONID cookie. Same symptoms. A new 
> PHPSESSIONID cookie is getting set when the edit page is clicked.
>
> I've been running Safari and tried FireFox - same symptoms which seems 
> to rule out something on my Mac.
>
> What could have changed overnight?
>
> John
>
>
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