[pmwiki-users] [AuthUser] Is there a way that users can, change their password for themselves

[Dominique Faure]

On 10/1/07, Ben Stallings <ben at interdependentweb.com> wrote:
> pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:
> > My whishlist for AuthUser:
> >
> > - Support for spaces in usernames (post 2.2)
> > - Support for special characters in usernames (perhaps comes in with
> > the switch tu UTF-8 (post 2.2)
> > - Some interface to change the password of a user.
>
> FWIW, the way Dan/Caveman/Editor/Coyote got around the
> spaces-in-usernames problem using ZAP authentication (at my suggestion)
> was to run the MakePageName function on whatever value is submitted
> during registration or login.  The reasoning was that since
> [[~username]] converts to [[Profiles/Username]], then it makes no sense
> for username to be anything other than a valid page name -- anything
> else will break the ~ links.
>
> The beauty is that a user doesn't have to remember the capitalization or
> spacing of his or her username, but can log in as
> PSMueller
> P.S. Mueller
> p s mueller or even
> pS.mueller
> equivalently.  So you can actually put a username reminder on the login
> form, telling people to "type your first and last names" or whatever the
> formulation is.  "psmueller", of course, is a different user.
>
> I highly recommend adopting the same function in AuthUser.  --Ben S.
>
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As soon as Patrick would provide a way to "plug" such a name
conversion/filtering function in authuser, I could make it available
for HtpasswordForm.

-- 
Dominique