[pmwiki-users] Group passwords\login

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri May 4 13:40:56 CDT 2007


On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:09:59PM -0400, IchBin wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:23:24PM -0400, IchBin wrote:
> >> I have been methodically reading through the documentation about setting 
> >> passwords for a single group (GroupAttributes) and giving read\write 
> >> access. I am finding the documentation to be all over the place with out 
> >> any solid top down examples. I mean I start reading one password doc 
> >> page then that points me to a chain of other document pages.
> >>
> >>   All I want to do is:
> >> - Hide all of a groups menu items for a particular Group.
> >> - Have a login menu Item that  asks for the group read password.
> >> - Then if validated it displays all of the Group menu items and brings 
> >> up the groups home page.
> > 
> > ...One quick question:  By "menu items" are you referring to
> > the links that typically get displayed at the top right
> > of each page?
> > 
> 
> Patrick, thanks for you speed response. Actually I meant the menu items 
> on the left margin. 

Okay, that helps.  We can definitely do what you're looking for,
but I'm having trouble visualizing the process -- especially
the part about "if validated it displays all of the Group menu items
and brings up the group's home page".  Does the visitor not see
the group's home page before validation?  If not, then what *do*
they see?

Perhaps you could walk me through what a visitor does and 
sees when they first come to the site?  For example, if the Group's 
home page is read protected, where does the visitor 
who hasn't entered a password yet start?  Do they simply get
a page where the main contents are blank and a login form in
the sidebar, or ... ?

Thanks,

Pm



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