[pmwiki-users] Re: authuser and .htgroups

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue Jun 21 16:23:47 CDT 2005


On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 02:16:31PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
> On 6/20/05, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Then, protecting pages on the wiki uses the same mechanisms as
> > default -- i.e., set per-page and per-group passwords using ?action=attr,
> > except you can add "passwords" that look like
> > 
> >     id:bart           # only "bart" can do this
> >     id:bart,nancy     # both "bart" and "nancy"
> >     id:*              # anyone with a valid username/password
> >     foobar id:bart    # only "bart" and anyone who knows the password "foobar"
> 
> Will compatibility with .htgroups be possible?  

Immediately, probably not, eventually yes.  It's not that it's hard
to do but I want to do baby steps and figure out how to clearly explain
and display what we already have before adding even more 
complexity/confusion to the midst.  :-)

Pm



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