[pmwiki-users] 2 things / password problems & registration

[IchBin]

Marguerite Floyd wrote:
> I've looked and read everything I could find looking for an answer.  I
> had the site set to require my password (admin password) for anything.
>  Tonight I tried to release that requirement so I could work on some
> pages.  I've commented (#) and uncommented everything in the config
> file related to my admin password.  I can view the home page just
> fine, but when I click on a new item on the sidebar so I can edit it,
> it demands a password.  I enter my admin password, and the password
> box comes back.  I haven't created any other password, so I have no
> idea what it's looking for.  (using v 2.45; latest upload)
> 
> What am I doing wrong and where can I find the answer?
> 
> Also, I'd like people who want to contribute and/or edit material to
> register -- name, user name, etc., but I can't find anything like that
> in the Cookbook.  Maybe I'm looking at it wrong but I want some way to
> identify folks who work with content.  Just in case . . .
> 
> the site is www.belovedparrot.com
> 
> Thanks -- and I'll probably bug y'all again -- but I do try to find
> the answer in all the archives first.

First Question: When you copied the sample-config.php to your local as 
config.php You can just uncomment the predefined one for admin. Should 
only ask for a password one time during your terminal session.

# $DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('secret');

You may want to use a different password and encrypt it first and put 
the encrypted where the password would be in this format:

$DefaultPasswords['admin'] ='$1$dC/.io..$CTtqn4N8TSAm68FQBEKdZ.';

To encrypt you can look here("Encrypting passwords in config.php"):
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PasswordsAdmin


Second question: There are a few recipes that will do what you want for 
accounts and password. Say ZAP, UserAuth with PresenceAwareness and 
others. I am using UserAuth2.

And just by chance I was just going to ask here if anybody knows if 
PresenceAwareness  works with UserAuth2. But I will open a new thread 
for that question.

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