[pmwiki-users] Need help with Site/AuthUser

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jun 15 08:47:42 CDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:39:07AM -0400, Jen Gagne wrote:
> I set an read password of @admins on Site.Authuser only because I read... 
> uh... somewhere on the site, that that's a good idea for security. 

It is a good idea -- it prevents casual visitors from learning the 
valid usernames for the site.  I was just curious as to why that
page was prompting for a password since you hadn't mentioned it
was read protected.  :-)

Pm




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