[pmwiki-users] Main.homepage asks for login..

Sofia M sofiam at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 14:08:16 CDT 2009


AuthUser I couldn't figure out either - there's no central place to
keep track of any users and passwords.  UserAuth works well in one of
our other implementations, so I thought I'd try to use it in this
current project as well...  and now I'm stuck..
perhaps I should look for a userauth group

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:01 AM, DaveG <pmwiki at solidgone.com> wrote:
> Obviously a dearth of people using UserAuth. What functionality are you
> using that would prevent you moving over to something more commonly used?
> Perhaps AuthUser? You might get more input under that environment.
>
>
>  ~ ~ Dave
>
> Sofia M wrote:
>>
>> all right... - I can't figure this out and tomorrow (Monday) is my
>> last day before maternity leave!!
>> Help :)
>> Willing to pay someone consulting fee to figure this out so I don't'
>> have to be thinking about this while on maternity leave..
>> Needs to be someone who's using userauth.
>>
>> Sofia
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Sofia M <sofiam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Petko -
>>> thanks for the suggestion about the Main/GroupAttributes?action=attr,
>>> but that didn't work either...
>>> Hans - I didn't even know that I could look at the code of a page in
>>> the wiki.d directory, thanks for the tip, I'll use it in the future,
>>> but for now it turns out there are no passwords set there either...
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who's using userauth on this list?
>>>
>>> Sofia
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Petko Yotov<5ko at 5ko.fr> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I installed userauth from the cookbook, and after messing with it, I
>>>>
>>>> UserAuth is an external module written by an independent developer. You
>>>> could probably try to contact him directly.
>>>>
>>>>>> can state that is IS, in fact, working - ?action=admin brings up the
>>>>>> right page, I can edit users, etc...
>>>>
>>>> There is no core PmWiki action "admin", I assume it is used by the
>>>> UserAuth module.
>>>>
>>>>>> the problem is - I don't understand why the main page of the wiki
>>>>>> (/Main/HomePage) is asking for a login
>>>>>>
>>>>>> on ?action=admin, I have GuestUser defined with these permissions:
>>>>>> "read_all, rss" - and it doesn't matter if I change it to just 'read'
>>>>>> from 'read_all', or if I get rid of 'rss'..
>>>>
>>>> There are no PmWiki permissions "read_all" or "rss", again, your
>>>> question probably relates to the UserAuth recipe, and its author may be
>>>> better placed to answer than anyone else.
>>>>
>>>>>> might this be a hold-over from the previous use of native authuser? -
>>>>>> I have set the passwords on /Main/HomePage to 'clear  in the
>>>>>> ?action=attr
>>>>
>>>> Yes, "clear" without the quotes should clear all passwords to a page.
>>>> You may also have defined passwords in a
>>>> Main/GroupAttributes?action=attr page, and you can clear them the same
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>> In recent PmWiki versions (2.2.0+) there is also the page
>>>> SiteAdmin/AuthList listing all pages with some passwords.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Petko
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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