[pmwiki-users] authuser forcing Author name stopped working?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Jul 8 09:29:18 CDT 2005


On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 10:03:24AM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> >That's a fair amount
> >trickier, because it's really a form of negative authentication
> >("if you know the shared password, you can claim to be
> >anyone except Neil or Bob").  But it's probably something
> >worth solving, since being able to password-protect the use of
> >specific author names is likely to be desired...
> 
> This is what I am trying to do, but it is not important enough to me (or 
> the rest of the world, I suspect) to have people spend any more time on it.

I'm thinking it might indeed end up being important to the rest of the
world, especially where authors might wish to protect their author name
from being spoofed.  But I don't have a quick answer to the problem either,
so I'll just let it cook for a while until an answer presents itself...

Pm



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