[Pmwiki-users] password protection and attaches

Benedikt Hochstrasser bhoc
Mon Jun 14 18:03:58 CDT 2004


Ulrik Karlsson wrote:
> Is there any way of putting password-protection on the attached files as well?

In that case you should create a .htpasswd file. Else you could simply bypass the wiki and download everything directly. A .htpasswd file usually forces the web server to prompt 
for username/password.

The downside is that you can't have PmWiki's "alternate" way of authentication because that one stores the credentials in a different way.

In a nutshell: read-protect everything. That way the occasional collector won't easily find your stuff. If it is sensitive matter, don't put it into a wiki at all. A wiki is about 
collaboration, not data protection.

-- 
Ben




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