Re: [Phpwiki-talk] No new user in http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RecentVisitors

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

AltGrendel schrieb:
> On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 17:10, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote:
>>Eighter I'm pretty dumb tonight or something
>>is wrong with creating a new user in the Wiki?
>>
>>Wanting to comment on an error in the new script
>>for debugging regexps,
>>I tried to edit with a NEW Name ('stucki') and
>>a password (to be created I thought), and all
>>I get is:
>>
>>PHP Warnings
>>lib/WikiUser.php:229: Warning[512]: Unable to connect to LDAP server localhost
>>
>>Somethig broken?
>>Curious,    Stucki
> 
> Shouldn't be. As the administrator of the exit0.us wiki, I think I can
> safely state that there is no password authentication enabled. 
> 
> I have noticed that there are some users that are having problems
> creating home pages. Is there a minimum character limit on the name of a
> user's page? For example, it won't let you create a page for Bob(3
> characters) but it will for Robert(6 characters).

No, no char limit on the username. from 1.3.8 on one can set a password 
char limit.

> I'm not tying to hijack this thread because I've had other users
> complain of the same basic thing. They try to create a user page but get
> an "Invalid UserID or password" message. I've tried to check the
> archives for this but haven't found anything.

Old Auth Scheme (1.3.4 - 1.3.8) and new auth scheme (auth_policy = old):

On REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT = true:
When the given username - password is invalid or not found, it tries the 
next methods (imap, ldap, ...).
If no matching user-passwd pair is found, "Invalid UserID or password" 
is returned.

So it looks like you enabled bogo login (ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN = true), which 
means that your users must login with a valid WikiWord. Robert and Bob 
are no valid WikiWords.

I suggest to set REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT = false, so that any 
username is accepted with or withour password. Then the password is only 
checked if the user has a homepage, where the password is actually stored.
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/