[pmwiki-users] UserAuth
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Sep 2 10:49:54 CDT 2005
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 04:10:48PM +0100, Rob Fisher wrote:
> I'm trying to add user authentication to my public wiki, so that guests
> can read the pages, but only I can edit them.
>
> Here come the questions...!
>
> 1) There seem to be two recipes that handle user authentication...
> UserAuth and AuthUser. What is the difference? Which is more newbie
> friendly!?
If you're going to be the only editor, then I suggest you don't
need to be dealing with either UserAuth or AuthUser at all. Just set
an edit password in local/config.php
$DefaultPasswords['edit'] = crypt('mysecret');
and you're set!
As far as the difference between UserAuth and AuthUser is concerned,
AuthUser is PmWiki's official identity-based authorization system
and will eventually have most of the important features of UserAuth.
> 3) The skin that I am using is Simple. This defines the Edit link in the
> simple.tmpl file. Could someone give me a pointer as to how I can use
> conditional formatting (ie hide the edit link) based upon the current
> users. It confuses me as the HTML seems to be outside the scope of
> PmWiki's conditional markup.
Perhaps change the edit link in simple.tmpl to be something like
"<!--wiki:Site.PageActions-->" and then you can edit the
Site.PageActions page to display the edit links based on conditional
markup. I believe that most of the newer skins are using wiki
pages for action links instead of coding them directly into the template.
Pm
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