[pmwiki-users] Author cookies

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sat Aug 12 15:05:25 CDT 2006


On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:48:58PM -0400, Pico wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >...where do you expect the checkbox to appear?
> 
> How about always display it on the login screen?
>
> I think I must be missing something, because it seems so obvious, so 
> I'll break down the steps to make the discussion explicit:
> [...]

...but none of the sites I run have a "login screen".
Authors on the systems I run generally enter their names
in the edit form.

But just because there's no login screen doesn't mean that
authors don't want to sometimes "logout" -- i.e., to remove
their name from the "Author" field in the edit form.

(In some of my systems we have on the order of 1,000 authors;
we don't have "user logins" and we don't want them because maintaining
hundreds of user accounts and passwords would be a huge pain,
for almost no additional capability or benefit.)

Pm




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