[pmwiki-users] Recipe for making logging succesful logins?

[marc]

f.r.salomons said...
> The Editor schreef:
> > On 1/9/07, f.r.salomons <salomons at wanadoo.nl> wrote:
> >> I am trying to make a pmwiki-website intended for use by a restricted
> >> group only. Most pages are therefore restricted for viewing and editing.
> >> Is there a way to log succesful logins by members of the user group?
> >> Preferably without also logging visits to the homepage (which is open to
> >> anybody). Is there a way to configure one of the logging recipes so as
> >> to achieve this?
> >>
> >> Frits
> > 
> > 
> > Zap has the capability of logging actions in forms and could to do
> > what you are asking.  I wouldn't mind pulling together a snippet for
> > you if you were interested in using zap. (I plan to do something like
> > this for my site eventually).  Just let me know what information you
> > want to capture from each login (member name? time/date? ip? browser?
> > whatever...)
> > 
> > There may be other simpler solutions, so you might also want to wait
> > and see if anyone else has a response to your question.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dan
> 
> Dan,
> 
> Tonight I found out (eventually) that what I want, can be done quite 
> nicely with the ActionLog recipe. This recipe gives you the opportunity 
> to exclude logging simple actions like viewing or printing pages. When 
> you also exclude logging other actions as edit, diff, attr, etc, you end 
> up logging only login/logout actions (with the authId and IP-adress).
> 
> a very content Frits

I agree. This is a very useful and well-designed recipe. I like the way 
that it's so easy to format the log record, and that it allows markup to 
be used too.

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Cheers,
Marc