[pmwiki-users] Re: AuthUser (handy) enhancements

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:20:06PM +0100, Dominique Faure wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Couldn't the AuthUser be modified to use the _crypt(...) function
> instead of the regular php crypt(...) ? This could help to switch from
> Site.AuthUser to .htpasswd and vice-versa very easily.

Yes.

> Another helpful feature would to have a kind of ROSPattern to crypt a
> password when editing the site.AuthUser instead of the ?action=crypt

Yes, this could be very useful -- I propose that (:crypt xyz:) is 
replaced with the encrypted form of xyz upon saving.  However, I have 
no idea how to document such a feature in a non-confusing way.

I'm still also planning to have a ?action=changepw action that
can provide a form based interface for setting a password.

Pm