[pmwiki-users] Help with my pmwiki and passwords revisited

[Tamara Temple]

On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Thomas Zunder <tom at zunder.org.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks!
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> Due to a variety of work pressures I am only now able to revisit this.
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> I have done as suggested below and changed my default password for admin.
> I have commented out the edit password.
> I can now edit the wiki happily.
> 
> Could I ask if someone could advise how to test the admin password?


The easiest way is attempt to edit a page in the Site group. It requires admin permission to edit, so it should ask you for the admin password. If you get to the edit page, it worked.

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> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Tom Zunder <
> tom at zunder.org.uk
>> wrote:
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> I have a pmwiki that I ran from 2005 to 2009. The last version was using
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> 2.11
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> It is time to restore it, but when I do so none of the pages can be edited
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> using either of the passwords in the config file.
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> I can't remember if I set group or page attribute passwords nor can I
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> remember what they'd be.
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> Is there a way to strip out the passwords and start again with the wiki
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> pages and rebuild security?
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> It's all sitting on a server on my home network right now (a LAMP server on
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> an Ubuntu box) so I can mess around until I get it right.
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> If anyone can help I can provide more or different details.
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> If the only passwords in use on your wiki were the ones set in
> config.php, it should be quite straight-forward. If you've used
> AuthUser, and have per-group and/or per-page permissions, it might be
> a bit harder.
> 
> Go ahead and change at least the admin password in your config.php
> file, then try logging in with it to edit things.
> 
> $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('mysekritpassword');
> 
> As you're preparing your wiki, keeping it in-house, you might want to
> go ahead and comment out or delete the other lines setting
> $DefaultPasswords, and if you've included script/authuser, comment
> that out as well.
> 
> Let us know if this works!
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> Tom Zunder
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