[pmwiki-users] MemberMgmt with UserAuth2

ThomasP pmwikidev at sigproc.de
Sun May 20 23:57:10 CDT 2007


On Sun, May 20, 2007 19:11, The Editor wrote:
> Yes that would be easy enough to do, but better for me, would be
> simply to have UserAuth2 read the session variable member mgmt sets
> directly and use it. That would not require any changes in ZAP,
> eliminates storing the group memberships data redundantly, and has the
> advantage that UserAuth2 could then work with any authentication
> method in AuthUser, and perhaps go a big step toward making the two
> work more harmoniously.
>
> I mean suppose someone want to use AuthUserDB (database) or DFaure's
> fine Htpasswd recipe for managing stuff. If UserAuth2 just read
> PmWiki's authlist, it could work it seems with all of these.
>

Yepp, that would indeed get the right data. I have to think about it
further and look at all the related recipes, to see what they are doing
and what functionality is actually desired. Unless it is urgent for
someone I will keep this more on a gradual basis.

> For my purposes (zapwiki), where I have at least a dozen site actions
> and potentially dozens more--all constructed dynamically within the
> wiki--having a centralized control center makes much more sense.
> Otherwise any kind of group attributes page is going to get very
> unwieldy. But ZAP is definitely more CMS in its approach than wiki so
> perhaps that's why it's more in harmony with UserAuth than AuthUser in
> philosophy. And why PmWiki is setup like it is.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan
>





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