[pmwiki-users] How do you test you have logged successfully ?

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 12:21:01 CDT 2007


On 6/13/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 06:50:46PM +0200, St�phane Heckel wrote:
> > Greetings, ...
> >
> > Does (:if enabled AuthPw:) really tell you have logged successfully ?
>
> What it really tests is whether or not any passwords have been
> entered.  If using a non-identity based authorization system, there's
> really not a notion of "logged in", but only "have you entered any
> passwords"?


However, for the convenience of users who make a typographic error during
login, you could do

(:if enabled AuthPw:)
[[Main.HomePage?action=logout | Logout]], or [[Main.HomePage?action=login |
Login with another password]] {*$AuthId}
(:else:)
[[Main.HomePage?action=login | Login]]
(:ifend:)
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