[pmwiki-users] Goal: Editing of sidebar to require password

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 07:43:18PM +0000, Hans wrote:
> Thursday, November 3, 2005, 5:34:04 PM, H. wrote:
> > Not exactly like any other page; you can't make it honor the global
> > edit password from config.php.  That's a significant inconvenience for
> > CMS-type installations.
> 
> If the "edit" attribute of Site.SideBar is set to "clear", a global
> edit password set in config.php should take effect, no?

No, it then grabs the edit password from Site.GroupAttributes.

The simple approach is to simply set the Site.SideBar edit password
to match the global edit password.  (Yes, if the global edit password
is changed one would have to change the Site.SideBar password to
match again.)

I'm still considering the possibility of being able to tell a
page to just use the attributes that exist on another page.  Then
we could set Site.SideBar to follow the attributes of Main.HomePage
(or whatever the default is) and all would be well.

Pm