[pmwiki-users] passwords and farms

Sandy sandy at onebit.ca
Fri Nov 17 15:45:06 CST 2006


Scott Connard wrote:
> Sandy wrote:
> 

>>> On 11/16/06, Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I now have a multi-field farm. (Yay!!!) Most of the fields will  
>>>> be CMS
>>>> use rather than wiki -- one admin, few writers, lots of readers.
>>
> 
> The admin password is not an authuser account.  It is just a  
> password.  As such I don't think it needs to be defined prior to the  
> include_once(authuser.php).  Even if it does, you should be able to  
> put the $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = 'yadayada'; into your  
> farmconfig.php which will then provide you an admin password for the  
> entire farm.
> 
> What I did with my farm was to include the DefaultPasswords['admin']  
> in my farmconfig.php to control all of the fields.  Any field that  
> required authuser did their own include_once(authuser.php) after  
> defining any users or groups that weren't placed into the  
> Site.AuthUser wiki page.
> 
> Doing this does NOT require including local/config.php in  
> farmconfig.php.
> 
> Scott.

Yep, this is what I think I was going for.

All that hassle, and it turns out 'admin' authority is the only one 
AdminID needs. Now unless one of my authors wants admin authority as 
well,... Nope, I won't give it to them.

Thanks everyone for your help!

Sandy







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