[pmwiki-users] password rejected

[Petko Yotov]

Thanks for notifying us, and sorry it wasted you 3 hours. I've added a 
clarification to that page.

Actually, if you read the documentation on *your own* wiki, you will be 
able to follow the link and to correctly encrypt the password. :-)

Petko

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On 2015-12-01 13:12, Wolf Drechsel wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I reinstalled a 2.2.81, and tried to set up a side-wide edit password.
> Every page of the wiki should be editable for those knowing the
> password.
> 
> So I created a password at this site:
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PasswordsAdmin?action=crypt
> ...as I understood the instructions.
> 
> But I found that this encrypted password is not accepted by my page.
> Only the password generated on my own wiki page
> ( http://mydomain.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?action=crypt)actually worked.
> 
> This costed me 3 hrs... )-:
> I think, instructions are misleading - at least stupid me was misled.
> 
> Therefore, shouldn't the
>  http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PasswordsAdmin page should be 
> altered
> like this?
> 
> Change from:
> "However, a wiki administrator can obtain and use an encrypted form of
> the password directly by using
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/PasswordsAdmin?action=crypt on any
> PmWiki url (or just jump to PasswordsAdmin?action=crypt)."
> 
> to:
> "However, a wiki administrator can obtain and use an encrypted form of
> the password directly by using
> http://yourdomain.com/yourpathtopmwiki/pmwiki.php?action=crypt "
> 
> Cheers,
> Wolf