[pmwiki-users] A couple of wiki questions

[David Goadby]

Hi Clemens,

Thanks for the answers. I will read, read & read again the upgrade
information.

If I set the default password for admin wiki access can I still set an
additional password (group? page?) to keep prying eyes out of the wiki setup
areas?

I will take on board the frames comment. The problem is my main website is
written using Netobjects and I need to integrate the wiki pages in a simple
way that allows me to upgrade the site without having to re-work too much
each time.

Any idea how those magic "swirly graphic" passwords are generated in PHP?
Could I generate and change the password for each user login by creating a
paasword and dynamically changing $DefaultPasswords['admin']?

Regards, and thanks again.

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clemens Gruber" <cgruber at uni-osnabrueck.de>
To: "David Goadby" <dg at pixel-plus.co.uk>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [pmwiki-users] A couple of wiki questions


> David Goadby wrote:
>
> >I am currently using an old version of pmwiki (1.0.011). I use it for a
> >[..]
> >I am going to upgrade to the
> >latest pmwiki and I know there will be difficulties as my wiki is so old
but I will work through it one way or another.
> >
> >
>
> Hi David,
>
> upgrade form verson 1.x to 2.x is a littel bit harder then within a
> major release, you can find help here:
> http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/UpgradingFromPmWiki1
>
> >My first question is: can I password protect the whole wiki for
> >edit/update?
> >
> >
> Yes of couse, you have to edit config.php and there you can set a
> password for the whole wiki $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = 'secret';
> $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = 'secret';
>
> >My second question is subtle. I want to use wiki pages as a simple CMS
> >system as part of a website. Ideally I want to insert the wiki pages in a
> >frame but I don't want a visible menu of options for these pages.
Possibly a
> >small admin option at the bottom would be ok for updates. Can I do this?
> >
> >
> Yes you can do this, but why you are using frames, frames are deprecated
> and you can use PmWiki as CMS - if you customize the template.
>
> When you will use PmWiki without navigation you can delete some sections
> in the template file, see
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/SkinTemplates
>
> Clemens
>
>