[pmwiki-users] [AuthUser] Is there a way that users can, change their password for themselves

Ben Stallings ben at interdependentweb.com
Mon Oct 1 07:26:37 CDT 2007


pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
> My whishlist for AuthUser:
> 
> - Support for spaces in usernames (post 2.2)
> - Support for special characters in usernames (perhaps comes in with  
> the switch tu UTF-8 (post 2.2)
> - Some interface to change the password of a user.

FWIW, the way Dan/Caveman/Editor/Coyote got around the 
spaces-in-usernames problem using ZAP authentication (at my suggestion) 
was to run the MakePageName function on whatever value is submitted 
during registration or login.  The reasoning was that since 
[[~username]] converts to [[Profiles/Username]], then it makes no sense 
for username to be anything other than a valid page name -- anything 
else will break the ~ links.

The beauty is that a user doesn't have to remember the capitalization or 
spacing of his or her username, but can log in as
PSMueller
P.S. Mueller
p s mueller or even
pS.mueller
equivalently.  So you can actually put a username reminder on the login 
form, telling people to "type your first and last names" or whatever the 
formulation is.  "psmueller", of course, is a different user.

I highly recommend adopting the same function in AuthUser.  --Ben S.



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