[pmwiki-users] setting $Author with $AuthId as prefix

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:17:19PM -0600, Tegan Dowling wrote:
> Kathryn, when you've confirmed this works, would you consider adding it to
> the site, as a recipe or as notes on the existing AuthUser page?
> 
> Also, something to check for:  In my experience of trying to use AuthUser, I
> found that on a **site** with AuthUser enbled, but **pages** configured to
> allow login via the non-AuthUser, native authentication, based on the
> password alone (set by config.php or page attr or group attr), someone
> logging in by clicking a (v2.1.26 syntax) [[{$Name}?action=login | Login]]
> link, and using their miscellaneous username plus the password, would be
> successfully logged in, but left hanging, looking at the Site.AuthForm,
> instead of being returned to ?action=browse.  Even expert users get confused
> and think their login has failed, when they're not returned to
> ?action=browse.
> 
> Just a heads up -- something to confirm isn't happening, or else that you
> find a work-around, if it does.

Well, the site is set up not to allow password-only logins, so I don't
think that will be an issue for me.
 
Kathryn Andersen
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