[pmwiki-users] Rethinking passwords and authorization

[marc]

Neil Herber said...
> At 2006-10-09  06:02 PM -0400, Ryan R. Varick is rumored to have said:
> >I've always kind of wondered why the syntax is as the way it is
> >anyway.  I certainly think it would be more intuitive if there were a
> >set of common prefixes, like
> >
> >   password:quick
> >   user:alice (or id:alice, if that's preferred)
> >   group:authors
> 
> This makes much more sense to me than the current "id:"  "@" and 
> nothing prefixes.
> 
> pw:
> id:
> gp:
> 
> are short and directly identifiable.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> gp: Alpha -id:Fred +pw:zebra
> 
> would mean the Alpha group, except for Fred, plus anyone who knows 
> the password zebra.

+1 although I prefer
pass:
usr: or user:
grp: or group:

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Best,
Marc