Re: [Phpwiki-talk] User Authentication?

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

Bob Pendleton schrieb:

> I've just installed PHPWiki and I'm testing it and trying to configure
> it. The main trouble that I am having is getting user authentication to
> work the way I want it to work. The docs that I have found are not clear
> on how to configure user authentication. 
> 
> What I would like is for the wiki to always ask for a user id and
> password. If the user id is new then accept the password as that users
> new password (maybe ask for the user to reenter it to make sure it was
> entered correctly) and from then on always require that user id and
> password. It *looks* like you should be able to configure PHPWiki to do
> that, the flags seem to be there, but I can't get it to ever ask for a
> password, but I can get it to fail when any user tries to login :-)
> 
> So, I guess my question is, can I get the behavior I want, or something
> close to it? And, how do I set up that configuration? 
> 
> I down loaded it from source forge yesterday so I believe it is the most
> current version. 

The nightly snapshot or from CVS?
The 1.3.10 release has some known auth problems with Db.
See the http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/demo/en/ReleaseNotes for the next 
release.

> 
> I'm running Debian/Testing (I'm not using the version of PHPWiki that is
> in Debian/Testing, it seems to be out of date and installs in a manner
> that makes it unusable.) with a 2.4 kernel, and using db4 while I'm
> testing PHPWiki.

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