[pmwiki-users] (? for PM?) Re: Overview over all passwords

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:32:47AM -0400, Crisses wrote:
> 
> On Sep 28, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >Part of the challenge is that there's a fair bit of password
> >information that needs to be displayed.  We generally want to know:
> >
> >   - if a password is set
> >   - if a password comes from a per-page, per-group, or site-wide  
> >   - if a particular action is coming from a "cascaded" password
> >     (e.g., setting a 'read' password also implies that the same
> >     password is needed for 'edit')
> >
> >Coming up with a useful way to summarize all of this information has
> >thus far been a bit of a challenge... so I'm open for suggestions.
> ...
> However, what happens if multiple items are set for a page?  I could  
> have a Main.HomePage.php in my local/, and have a Group attribute  
> set, and have a page attr set.
> 
> 1) which is the active one?  which are redundant? -- i.e. order of  
> precedence

Page passwords override group passwords, which override site-wide
passwords.

> 2) how to display multiple settings per page/group -- since you can  
> define the passwords in several ways.

I don't quite understand this one.

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