Found the solution! Re: [pmwiki-users] private group access question(s)

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-03-04  10:59 PM -0500, Neil Herber is rumored to have said:
>At 2005-03-04  03:47 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
>> > Hmmm ... whatever will alllow Neil and Bob to use pages in the Private
>> > group just like all the other pages (read, edit, upload).
>> > And whatever will prevent others from accessing the group. I already have
>> > (:pagelist:) and (:searchbox:) suppression for the group.
>>
>>Okay, you'll want to keep the group read password on the Private
>>group so that pages don't show up in pagelist and search.  That means
>>we just need some way to automatically supply the read password
>>when Neil or Bob are logged in.  So, maybe
>>
>>     if (@$_SESSION['REMOTE_USER'] == 'Neil'
>>         || @$_SESSION['REMOTE_USER'] == 'Bob') {
>>       session_start();
>>       $_SESSION['authpw']['abcdef']++;
>>     }
>>
>>where 'abcdef' should be the password to access the Private group.
>>Essentially, this just says that whenever Neil or Bob access the
>>site (as authenticated by the web server), then pretend that
>>'abcdef' is already in the list of passwords they've sent.
>>
>>Yeah, it's a hack, but it should work.  :-)
>
>I cut and pasted the code to config.php on the wiki field. I changed the 2 
>usernames to their real values. I changed the abcdef to the real read 
>password for the group. It still asks for the password! I also tried the 
>"crypted" version of the password.
>
>This would be ideal if I could get it to work!

There are two typos in the code. It should read:

     if (@$_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] == 'Neil'
         || @$_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] == 'Bob') {
       session_start();
       $_SESSION['authpw']['abcdef']++;
     }

In other words, $_SERVER instead of $_SESSION. It also seems to require the 
password as clear-text. The crypted string did not work.

This works beautifully! Thanks!


Neil

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