[pmwiki-users] Password protect entire site

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 09:05:10PM -0500, DaveG wrote:
> What is the simplest way to lock down an entire site. I want a single 
> user (me) to be the only one to be able to do anything (reading, source, 
> delete, etc).

Setting the 'read' password is generally sufficient to block all 
other actions.

    $DefaultPassword['read'] = crypt('your_secret_password');

> Things being what they are though, I could see some point in the future 
> that I suddenly want to open a single page or group. So perhaps the new 
> page stored security might be a better approach.

Later, if you want to open a single page or group, you can set the
read password for that page or group to be '@nopass'.

Pm