[pmwiki-users] Append read-auth password to url for instant login via link?

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 15:21:03 CDT 2006


On 8/23/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 03:51:51PM -0500, Tegan Dowling wrote:
> > Hi, List:
> >
> > I want to automatically log someone into a read-protected website
> > (w/default password-authentication type of security) using a password
> > string appended to the URL in another page, for example:
> >
> > http://www.somewiki.com/Main/HomePage?action=login&authpw=readpassword
> >
> > where readpassword is the group or page 'read' password.
> >
> > Is there a way to do that? I don't want them to see the password box;
> > I just want to pre-supply that and log them directly into the site.
>
>
>     if (!isset($_POST['authpw']) && @$_GET['authpw'])
>       $_POST['authpw'] = $_GET['authpw'];

Hi, PM - I'm sorry, I've really tried to figure out how to use this,
but I just don't know enough. Could you tell me where to put it (and
maybe what I do after I put it there)? If it goes in local/config.php,
does it matter where?  Thanks so much for your help - sorry to be such
a pain.

Tegan




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