[pmwiki-users] pmwiki-2.0.beta50 released
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jul 21 11:33:22 CDT 2005
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 06:20:35PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> I just noted that PmWiki uses these settings:
> $HandleAuth['browse'] == 'read'
> $HandleAuth['source'] == 'read'
> $HandleAuth['edit'] == 'edit'
> $HandleAuth['attr'] == 'attr'
> $HandleAuth['postattr'] == 'attr'
> $HandleAuth['approveurls'] == 'edit'
> $HandleAuth['approvesites'] == 'edit'
>
> This seems to mean that _actions_ are separate (and use different
> terminology than) _authorisation levels_. An _authorisation level_ just
> seems to be a group of things that the admin wants to authorise as a unit.
>
> Is that correct?
Yes (it's always been this way).
> Are the authorisation level values visible to end users? If so: can I
> change the texts (say, "schreiben" statt "edit" for my German visitors)?
One can customize the prompts in the ?action=attr form;
beyond that there are a few places that these values cannot
yet be internationalized.
> >2. Passwords can now "cascade" -- that is, if a page sets a
> >'read' password but not an 'edit' password, then the read
> >password is also used as the edit password. Similarly, if a
> >page sets an 'edit' password but not an 'attr' password,
> >then the edit password is also used as the attr password.
>
> Is that configurable?
> I.e. could I switch off parts of the cascade, or add a new intermediate
> authorisation level that becomes part of the cascade?
Yes, it's configurable via the $AuthCascade array.
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