[pmwiki-users] authuser and nopass

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 06:26:22PM +0100, noskule wrote:
> hi list
> I try to setup userauth and have some trouble . . ..
> Password protection works generaly in all groups but I cant get read 
> access for "not logged in users"  on  specific pages in the Site Group. 
> I protected the Site group with GroupAttributes passworts for admins 
> only. After that I did try to unlock specific pages with entering nopass 
> into the "set new read password". This seams not to work cause  the 
> result is  4 * in the right field, what so far I understand means that a 
> password is set.
> Does anyone have a hint?

If you're using beta35, try using "@nopass" instead of "nopass" -- it's
clearer.

In earlier versions of PmWiki, the page attributes would still display
"****" for a page that had "nopass" as a password (which is one reason
I switched it to be a "@nopass" group instead of a "nopass" password).

Pm