[pmwiki-users] tweaking the operation of Site.AuthForm

[Neil Herber]

I have a wiki in a farm running *without* Authuser but with a custom 
Site.AuthForm that requests an *author name* along with the password.

There are 2 levels of default passwords that visitors encounter:
1) a read password to even see the site at all
2) an edit password if they want to change something they are reading

So when I first enter the site, I get a form asking for my name and 
password, which I supply, and all is well. My author name appears in 
the "logged in as:" display at the bottom of the page.

If I then decide to edit a page, the form appears again, but with 
different prompts based on the fact that I am already authorized to 
read. The problem is, the "name" field is blank in the form, when 
ideally it should be pre-filled with $Author.

Any way to do this?

Note that I have some custom code that pops the cursor into the name 
field, as supplied by PM yesterday.


Neil

Neil Herber
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