[pmwiki-users] Need help with Site/AuthUser

JimB jbeuerle at triad.rr.com
Wed Jun 14 18:37:03 CDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jen Gagne" <jen at beware-of-art.com>
To: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: [pmwiki-users] Need help with Site/AuthUser


> You must get a message like this VERY often, so I'd appreciate your 
> patience and
> help.
>
> I have read the pages of the faq and the manual, and I THINK I'm doing 
> what they
> say but I'm obviously wrong -- I still can't set up user accounts. The 
> global
> admin and attr passwords work, but not user accounts.
>
> Here's my setup... I'm not sure which version I'm running, but I just 
> installed
> it the other day so it must be new-ish. (How do I find out my version, 
> anyway?)
>
> In config.php, I set up the admin and attr passwords. These aren't the 
> real
> values, just examples.
> $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = ('$1$Cuzw/XRe$RNKq3KAsaOXzyQgCaXrTw0');
> $DefaultPasswords['attr'] = ('$1$Cuzw/XRe$RNKq3KAsaOXzyQgCaXrTw0');
>
> I didn't set an 'edit' password since that would override my user 
> accounts,
> right?
>
> Further down in config.php, I put:
> include_once("scripts/authuser.php");
> $Author = $AuthId;
>
> Then I edited this page,
> http://www.iamikon.com/pmwiki.php/Site/AuthUser
> ... to set up a list of user accounts based on the explanation there. 
> Here's an
> example entry:
>
> JenGagne: $1$Cuzw/XRe$RNKq3KAsaOXzyQgCaXrTw0



FIRST:  I AM NOT AN EXPERT.

I had a similar problem and it was caused by the space between the : and $. 
(Spaces are bad anywhere I have found.)

Hope this helps,

Jim




>
> Then I made myself part of the @cons group, like so:
>
> @cons: StefanGagne, Twoflower, JenGagne
>
> But, whenever I try to test the login, it doesn't work. It says 
> "Name/password
> not recognized"
>
> It DOES let me in if I use the global admin password, but that just 
> sidesteps
> the issue, right?
>
> Wondering if it was an issue with site.authuser, I tried an alternate 
> approach
> as suggested by http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthUser
>
> As instructed there, I tried adding this type of line before including the
> authuser.php script.
> $AuthUser['JenGagne'] = '$1$CknC8zAs$dC8z2vu3UvnIXMfOcGDON0';
>
> But alas, that doesn't work either.
>
> I'm sure I'm screwing up some very obvious facet of this process, but I'm 
> pretty
> new to this... so, any advice VERY appreciated!
>
> -=- Jen
>
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