[pmwiki-users] Proposed change to password memorization

[Benjamin Fay]

Hi
Is it possible to get the browser to remember the password ("saved password" 
feature in i.e. firefox)  without having to install the "UserAuth".

regards.

benjamin fay

Am Donnerstag, 24. Februar 2005 22:38 schrieb Dominique Faure:
> At Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:51 PM [GMT+1=CET], Patrick R. Michaud
>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:18:00AM -0800, steven_leite at kitimat.net wrote:
> > > There might be times where the administrator wants to set/change
> > > passwords in groups/pages withOUT actually logging out.  So it seems
> > > to me the ?action=logout might be a better solution (and less work
> > > too).
> >
> > ?action=logout by itself isn't sufficient, because then the administrator
> > has to realize that he/she needs to logout in order to lose the
> > passwords. (In the scenario I gave in my original message, the admin
> > would still
> > be confused about why the password "didn't take".)
> >
> > > I'd like to see he login/logout links as "pluggable" for the template
> > > in the same way that the edit this page, link and others are easily
> > > placed in to the template.
> >
> > One can always add them into the template.  Trying to make them
> > automatically appear and disappear in every skin/menu is beyond
> > the scope of what I want to do now.
>
> IMO, I would enjoy something taking the best of AuthenticatedAsConditional
> and UserAuth Cookbook recipes:
>
> 1. An 'authenticated' predicate to allow conditional display of content,
> 2. A couple of (:login:) (:logout:) markup to allow embedding of
> '?action=login' form and '?action=logout' url where you want (eg in the
> sidebar),
> 3. Internal forms of the above usable from skin code to switch blocks of
> html according to user rights.
>
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