[Phpwiki-talk] Questions about authentification

[Tom C. <li...@to...>]

Hello,

I'm getting in a real muddle here. I abandoned database auth, and went with 
file. I've got my htpasswd file set-up, and it seems to be working with 
PhpWiki. But the behaviour is completely useless.

If I go to a page I have permission to edit, and sign in, it tells me by the 
sign in box that I am "Authenticated as community". If I then try to edit the 
page, it asks me to login again, saying: "Editing pages is disallowed on this 
wiki for not authenticated user 'community' (level: ANON)." So I login, 
change the page, and hit the submit button. It asks me to login *again*, 
which I do, and it works. Now, by the sign in box it tells me "You are signed 
but not authenticated as community". So I have to sign in *again* to do 
anything else.

That is insane. Surely it should let the user login, checking their details 
against the htpasswd file, and then leave them logged in with a session 
cookie or some such mechanism until they log out or a given time expires? 
Nobody is going to want to type in their username and password every time 
they want to bring up a page that requires their authentification!

Can I fix this myself, and if so, how?

Regards,
Tom