[pmwiki-users] Remember Password Feature in Firefox

Sebastian Schneider sesc at unibw.de
Wed Mar 9 02:08:51 CST 2011


Thanks for your idea, but I'd rather keep using the password remembering 
feature.

Sebastian

Am 08.03.2011 18:56, schrieb Dominique Faure:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 15:38, Sebastian Schneider<sesc at unibw.de>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I know this might be a firefox-issue, but I thought I'd still give this list
>> a try, since the problem only occurs to me with pmwiki pages.
>>
>> I'm using the "remember my password"-feature from firefox and I have a
>> pmwiki-page. Now I have two different pages, let's say Main.Page1 and
>> Main.Page2.
>>
>> I set the passwords for viewing, editing, attribute changing and uploading
>> for the first page to "page1" and for the second page to "page2".
>>
>> Now, the first time I try to open Main.Page1 it asks for a password. I enter
>> "page1" and allow firefox to store the password. Now, when I go to got to
>> Main.Page2, firefox fills in the password field with the stored password
>> "page1", which obviously doesn't open the site.
>>
>> If I enter the correct password "page2", firefox asks me if I want to change
>> the previously stored password.
>>
>> How come, that firefox doesn't recognize, that Main.Page1 and Main.Page2 are
>> different pages, and store the passwords for each Page individually?
>>
>> Could this have to do with the Adress-Rewrite-Rules, that make Links to
>> Pages appear as: http://www.example.com/Main/Page1?
>>
>> Thanks for your tipps,
>>
>> Sebastian
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> A solution could be to have password remembering disabled for all the wiki.
> According to this page:
>
> http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/08/force-firefox-to-remember-password-of.html
>
> this could be made using an edited Site.AuthForm page containing the
> following directive.
>
> (:input password name=authpw autocomplete=off:)
>
> I didn't test this.



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