[Pmwiki-users] secure editing website with a username password dialog box dous not work with Opera

[Patrick R. Michaud]

No, there must be something else happening here.  If PmWiki is
configured with an edit password, then it won't even send the
edit form to the browser until the password has been provided. 
So, if Opera is displaying the edit form without prompting for
a password, then I'd say that it's either displaying a cached version
of the edit form from before the page being assigned a password, or
else Opera has cached the password and is sending it to PmWiki without
re-prompting for it (most browsers will cache passwords, although not
normally across sessions).

Are you actually able to complete an edit in Opera without having
to enter a password--i.e., get the form and submit changes and have 
them show up in the resulting page?  Even if Opera is somehow displaying
the edit form, PmWiki certainly should not accept postings to the 
page without the password.  If that's the case, then either Opera is
somehow sending the password or there's a serious bug in PmWiki.

I've temporarily created a page at 
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Main/PasswordProtected that has an
edit password on it.  You can try loading it with Opera and see if
you are prompted for a password.  If you're able to get to the edit
page without having to know the password, then there's something weird
going on and I need to do some experimentation.

Let me know,

Pm


On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 11:44:18AM +0200, W.L.Alsemgeest wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am, as a new pmwiki user, setting up a web site. To prevent users to edit
> the content, I added in my local.php the password line. With IE the username
> password box will pop up. Using Opera, the box does not popup, but the edit
> can be performed without a username password.
> 
> This is my line in the local.php
> 
>   $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('mypassword');
> 
> Is this a pmwiki bug or is Opera doing something wrong (I think the last
> option)
> 
> Greetings,
> wim Alsemgeest
> 
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