<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Neil Herber</b> <<a href="mailto:nospam@eton.ca">nospam@eton.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a new wiki in my farm that needs to be protected by a read<br>password. All users will share the password.<br><br>When a user first enters the site, I want to present a login screen<br>asking for a user name and password.
<br><br>Since the password is shared, *any* user name should be accepted. I<br>want the username that is entered (authid, I think) to be used to set<br>the Author name on any edits.<br><br>How do I do this with PmWiki 2.1.3
?</blockquote><div><br>
Did you try it? The AuthUser version I ran on a few of my V2.0.12
wikis worked just that way - I could set a read-password via
?action=attr or in the config, and a user could put any old name in the
Username field; it would be accepted as long as they knew the secret
handshake.<br>
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