[pmwiki-users] usabilty of authuser

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 10:09:48AM +0100, Patrick Ogay wrote:
> I'm using authuser and so far I'm content to have authuser.
> It's a nice feature to be able to add new user.
> 
> I think it makes sense to authorize User for a wikigroup or restrict to 
> a page.
> But it's not very userfriendly to maintain the user authentications, 
> particularly if there are many groups.
> * a possible Group-Authentication  (Profiles: Guest, Poweruser (not 
> Admin), project-user)  would be nice.

Already exists... the admin can define new authorization groups
(e.g., "@guest", "@poweruser", "@admin") in Site.AuthUser, and use
those for authorization to pages and groups.

> It would be nice, to be able to define a user for a particular field, 
> but not locally in the config.php.

This can be done via the field's Site.AuthUser page.

Pm