[pmwiki-users] UserAuth2 question...

[pmwikidev at sigproc.de]

Hello,

tried already to answer shortly by direct mail, but message did bounce
(weconsultants at comcast.net).

Your assumptions are fully correct - as admin you will have full
privileges for all actions.

Indeed it is almost sure that your are not logged in though the password
is correct. Probably (since we had this symptom once already) your session
support is somehow broken. The result is that the authentication status is
forgotten over subsequent page request, so you never retain the login
status though the password check was successful.

As solution try to see whether all session related variables are set to
sensible values in your php.ini. (Session save path is set by the
userauth2 module, so no need to worry abut this one. The corresponding
target directory (cookbook/userauth2/session_data) needs to be writable
though; permissions?) Are session files actually written to this dir? Do
they contain the new authentication status (username="admin")?

If you have the opportunity, try to test the sessions with some
alternative web app.

I hope this brings the solution.

Thomas

> IchBin wrote:
>> Not sure what I am doing wrong trying to get UserAuth2 running.. Well
>> let me rephrase that: "After installing the recipe install be able to
>> use the 'admin' account. Maybe some one can point me in the right
>> direction.
>>
>> This is the environment:
>>
>>    - Running WinXP SP 2 OS.
>>    - Installed a clean instance of pmwiki-2.2.0-beta45.
>>    - Have Apache2.2.4 serving it to the internet through a VirtualHost.
>>    - It can be loaded using my ip address http://68.83.247.195
>>    - I installed UserAuth2 as directed.
>>    - After I installed the recipe and then reloaded the main page all of
>> the required subdirectories where create as mentioned in the
>> documentation.
>>
>> This is as far as I can get. The docs say the it automatically creates,
>> among other things, an 'admin' account with a blank passwords. It does
>> because I can see it under the ..\userauth2\profiles.
>>
>> OK, so now I try to edit any pages the following happens: (for this
>> example I am trying to edit the WikiSandbox page)
>>
>>   - Select the edit for the WikiSandbox page.
>>   - The login page displays.
>>   - I enter user: 'admin' and password:"".
>>   - It redisplays the WikiSandbox page but does not let me edit it.
>>
>> I have tried to log in by entering a non blank password. I get the
>> expected account "Wrong password supplied." message. So it looks like it
>> is working.
>>
>> Maybe it is a wrong assumption on my part. I assume since it is an
>> 'admin'  that I could do anything with respect to 'read', edit' or
>> 'attr' from the initial install. The same way that the core pmWiki works
>> not using AuthUser..
>>
>> Do I have to setup rules for the 'admin' account after I install the
>> UserAuth2 recipe?
>>
>> If I:
>>
>>   - Disable the recipe
>>   - Add the example code <below> to the SideBar
>>   - after logging, as some above in as an 'admin', the only menu item
>> displayed is "Login". So it is not really logging me into the website.
>>
>>
>> Example:
>> 	(:if loggedin:)
>> 	* [[Logout ({$AuthId}) -> Site.Login?action=logout]] \\
>> 	(:if:)
>> 	(:if ! loggedin:)
>> 	* [[Login -> Site.Login]] \\
>> 	(:if:)
>> 	(:if auth admin :)
>> 	[[{$FullName}?action=admin | $[Admin tool] ]]
>> 	(:if:)
>>
> Sorry but I figured I would ask the same questions posted before. There
> must be people using this recipe.
>
> Basic question (short form): After the initial install of UserAuth2, how
> do I enable the default 'admin' user to login with 'admin' authority? I
> can login but I do not have those authorities. Hope I'm making some
> sense with this question or read the above post... or do I have the
> wrong expectation and doing something wrong.
>
> --
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