[pmwiki-users] AuthUser/mySQL Feature (prefer alternative) . . .

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Jan 11 11:15:58 CST 2006


On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:57:11AM -0600, Ben Wilson wrote:
> I  knew that groups were created via the Site.AuthUser, but I am
> hoping for something a little more direct. The organization I support
> has limited techincal skills, and the Site.AU page has already
> intimidated them.

Perhaps simplify the Site.AuthUser page ... ?  Get rid of all of 
the descriptive text and other examples and leave it with just the 
group specifications (and possibly a paragraph explaining how
to add the group specifications).

Also, you could put all of the group memberships at the top of the
page, and then have a marker that says "don't edit below here unless
you know what you're doing", as in:

    @admin: User2
    @editor: User3

    ==== don't edit below here ====

    htpasswd: .... 

> The recipe is already very close to what will work for this org. All I
> need is the ability to add groups to users (similar perhaps to the
> UserAuth admin interface). That is, I need to be able to assign User2
> to @admin and User3 to @editor.
> 
> What I'm thinking is the admin would only have to say "admin" or
> "editor," and the recipe would know to append '@'.

And put it *where*?  I'd be leery of any recipe automatically
modifying the Site.AuthUser page itself.

Pm




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