[pmwiki-users] Unable to authorize by group

[Darren Gamble]

Good day,

I'm trying to set up a new pmwiki 2.1.27 setup to work with userids and groups, via authuser.php.  I've been easily able to authorize users to pages, but I can't seem to authorize by group membership.  It seems pretty clear in the documentation on how this should work, but I've been completely unsuccessful.

Here are the details on the setup:

Users authenticate to apache via mod_auth_tkt, so I added to config.php:

$AuthId = $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'];

... which works great.  Adding "id:dgamble1" to a page's "edit" field for a page's "action=attr" page works as expected, and was also successfully denied (i.e. presented with the page to enter the admin password) when it was changed to a different username.

However, I've been completely unsuccessful at authorizing by group membership.

I set:

@rsc

as the edit password field.  But, users in that group still don't have access.  I tried defining it in Site.AuthUser as:

@rsc: dgamble1

... and then tried:

dgamble1: @rsc

... and failing that, then instead tried:

$AuthUser['@rsc'] = array("dgamble1");

... in config.php, but, nothing worked.  To ensure that there was no conflicts with the "admin" login, I did all of my testing on a second machine.

Any suggestions?

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Darren Gamble
Systems Architect, Regional Services
Shaw Cablesystems GP
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