<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On May 2, 2011, at 4:22 AM, James M wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>ps Perhaps this could be made explicit on the PmWiki/AuthUser webpage.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">1. The page <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords</a> currently contains the following:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; font-size: 13px; ">In PmWiki, page passwords override group passwords, group passwords override the <i>default</i> passwords, and the <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 11px; ">admin</span> password overrides all passwords. This gives a great deal of flexibility in controlling access to wiki pages in PmWiki.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">Maybe it would be better to say:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; font-size: 13px; ">In PmWiki, page passwords override group passwords, group passwords override the <i>default</i> passwords, and the <span style="font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 11px; ">admin</span> password overrides all passwords. Overriding replaces, rather than adds to, the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">site and group settings for that permission. </span>This gives a great deal of flexibility in controlling access to wiki pages in PmWiki.</div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">2. You mentioned updating the AuthUser page. Since the principle of overriding applies to passwords as well as to authorization groups, maybe there should be a page called Authorizations that extracts the common elements - to which the Passwords and AuthUser pages can refer. I'm not sure how best to refactor the documentation, but I have a hunch some refactoring would improve it.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">3. PmWiki's documentation is always being improved by its users. Since you have a fresh perspective, it would be wonderful if you</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "> could suggest and/or make </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; ">improvements</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; ">. A good place to have a discussion like this might be on the -Talk page associated with the page to be improved. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; "><div>I also want every editor to be allowed to upload. Is there any way<br>of making the edit and upload permissions identical</div></blockquote></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; ">4. To give users who have the right to edit the right to upload too, try putting this in your local configuration file:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div>$HandleAuth['upload'] ='edit';</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; "><br></span></div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; ">Randy</span></div></div><br></body></html>