[pmwiki-users] Password Confusion

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:53:14AM -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> Am I just not getting something?  I was under the impression that the  
> default passwords had a hierarchy effect.  I thought, they worked in  
> the following order...
> 
> 	READ: Visitors can read content
> 	EDIT: Visitors can read and edit content
> 	UPLOAD: Visitors can read, edit, and upload content
> 	ATTR: Visitors can read, edit, upload, and change attributes
> 	ADMIN: The equivalent of a "PmGod" ... can do anything
> 
> Is this not the case?

This is not the case -- passwords do not automatically cascade
in PmWiki.  

> For this reason, I had the following passwords
> 
> 	READ: password01
> 	EDIT: password02

You probably want

        READ: password01 password02
        EDIT: password02

(I think this was already answered on the list, I'm just catching
up on email and making sure. --Pm)

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