[pmwiki-users] question about password files

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-11-07  05:46 PM +0100, Patrick Ogay is rumored to have said:
>and later I tryed with different kind of password-length  in the 
>same .htpasswd, seem's a bad idea.
>but the worst:
>the correct statment seems to be and works:
>    $AuthUser['vhcuser']  = "$FarmD/local/.htpasswd";
>    $AuthUser['pogaz']    = "$FarmD/local/.htpasswd";
>where vhcuser, pogaz  are  users in the password file
>
>**not**  as I understood the documentation:
>
>$AuthUser['htpasswd'] = 'local/.htpasswd';
>(I thought pmwiki searches user/passwd in the passwd-file, here the 
>user would be htpasswd)
>
>
>Wouldn't it be senseful to be able to define the user through  the 
>passwordfile?  Like I tought, it would be.


Patrick

I am not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but I just updated 
the AuthUser page as follows:
=============

Passwd-formatted File

You may also specify a 
<http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/AuthUser#passwd-files>passwd-formatted 
file (usually called .htpasswd on Apache servers) by including a 
special "htpasswd" user and the path to your passwd-formatted file. 
If you have usernames and passwords in a file called .htpasswd in 
your local/ directory, you will write:


     $AuthUser['htpasswd'] = 'local/.htpasswd';

$AuthUserHtPasswd = 'local/.htpasswd';

To access an .htpasswd file which is stored outside of your web 
structure, you need to specify the entire path:


     $AuthUser['htpasswd'] = 'C:/path/to/directory/.htpasswd';
=================
Each line of the .htpasswd file should look something like:

      NeilHerber:$apr1$eg3.....$ZOTsfrtyhbe45bhOsW1

where the username is to the left of the colon(:) and the encrypted 
password to the right. AuthUser automatically recognizes the type of 
encryption used.

To allow user "NeilHerber" to perform some action on a page, you 
would need to set the proper "attr" setting to "id:NeilHerber".

There is no need to reference the .htpasswd file anywhere except in 
config.php. The reference need to appear *before* the include for AuthUser.

Does that help? Or does it just confuse things?



Neil

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