[pmwiki-users] Password protection doesn't work?

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, JimB wrote:

> christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > It is no longer possible to protect a password from being edited by changing
> > the attributes... this page should be protected by the password 'quick' for
> > instance:
> > 
> >  http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/PasswordProtectedPage?action=edit
> > 
> > But I just tried it and it works at pmwiki.org
> > 
> > 	http://pmwiki.org/wiki/TestPwProtect/PasswordProtectedPage?action=edit
> > 
> > Any ideas how I can find the problem (which I guess is with some conflicting
> > recipes)?
> > 
> > /Christian
> > 
> > PS. I discovered this problem when I wanted to add a password for approving
> > URLs. The PmWiki page doesn't say so, but I assume that in order to have a
> > password for protecting a URL, I should protect Site.ApprovedUrls from being
> > edited.

> I can see the edit page, but cannot save anything.

Yeah... that is correct - and weird. 

I can make changes in the edit field, but saving it doesn't change the 
result (and no warning message or nothing).

/C

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr