[pmwiki-users] Rethinking passwords and authorization

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:09:30AM -0400, Sandy wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > 
> > For a variety of reasons I think it's important that access 
> > control information remain associated with the pagefile and 
> > not factored out into a separate location.  This isn't to say 
> > that we cannot have a "centralized access control" option,
> > but it needs to be possible to have the access control in the 
> > page file itself.
>
> Does this mean that in the current system, if I change access for a 
> group, each page is updated? Can't, because I might change it through 
> config.php rather than action=attr.

In the current system, if you change access for a group (via ?action=attr)
it's only stored in the GroupAttributes page file.

In short, anything that is changed via ?action=attr is stored in
the pagefile itself (which is why they're called "page attributes").

Pm