[pmwiki-users] Self registration
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jan 22 12:48:10 CST 2009
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Peter Bowers wrote:
> I personally would vote for a colon-delimited
> list of fields -- just as it currently is in AuthUser except more fields
> than just the username and hash. (Do note, however, that the hashed
> password can contain a colon so it would need to be the final field in the
> list if this approach were used.)
Password fields can contain colons? I hadn't seen any examples of this.
Beyond that, if we're going to use SiteAdmin.AuthUser to manage
additional information then I prefer using keywords instead
of colons:
pmichaud: <encrypted_password> email="pmichaud at pobox.com" fullname="Pm"
As mentioned elsewhere, this makes it easy for ParseArgs() to handle.
> Is there an advantage to putting the authentification & user-info type of
> data in the profile page? I don't think I've seen an argument on that side
> yet although I may have missed it...
(1) having all of the information on the SiteAdmin.AuthUser page can
make it very cluttered for an admin to view/modify; putting
info in profile page (with pagelist commands for displaying
summary) keeps SiteAdmin.AuthUser itself clean
(2) a small mistake in SiteAdmin.AuthUser can suddenly wipe out lots
of accounts
(3) it's far quicker to grab authentication information from a
profile page than it is to parse and process the SiteAdmin.AuthUser
page, especially if there are large numbers of accounts
Pm
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