It's late, I'm tired and 12-zone jetlagged, so please pardon what is probably a very dumb question.<br><br>I just upgraded my wiki and have turned again to the issue of setting a password. I want just to have a general password for users to enter before editing pages (to stem a slowly growing spam problem) but think I see only instructions for an admin password or for non-admin passwords on
individual pages. Actually I'm not sure I understand the difference between admin passwords and passwords anyway (hopefully this is not also a wiki IQ problem on my part). I would have assumed that most admin actions would not be possible except to the owner, people with permission to access the server directory where the wiki is installed, and skilled hackers with too much time on their hands.
<br><br>Actually I'm a little concerned that by setting an admin password (if I understand the concept correctly) I would be opening a possibility of unwanted levels of access. Rather like knocking a hole in a wall to put in a door with a lock, if that analogy makes any sense -
i.e., a lock picker can get in where before his tools couldn't breach the wall.<br><br>But the main question simply is, what do I do to set a (global) password for users of the site who wish to make ordinary amendments/edits to ordinary pages throughout the site? Do I set an admin password anyway, or give each page the same password individually, or (hopefully) something a lot simpler.
<br><br>Thanks in advance for your patience with this question.<br><br>Don Osborn<br>