Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Error in WikiNewUser

[Whit B. <wh...@tr...>]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:11:49PM +0100, Tom Chance wrote:

> I have to say that the user authentification system is *very* confusing if you 
> don't want to use the BogoLogin system. I just want to be able to quickly 
> create one user, set-up the ACL and go. If anyone could just give me the db 
> queries, I'd be grateful :) I tried by just putting a new row into the user 
> table with plain text username and password, but it still tries to create a 
> new user when I try to login with that username!

Well, Tom, at least you're getting more than %BODY% for your page content ;)

Does anyone happen to know if how far the user login stuff has been
modularized? For instance, pure-ftpd is able to be set to depend on an
arbitrary external login script to return a defined list of parameters - and
since PHP scripts can run in a CLI mode, it's pretty easy to set that up to
get just what you want.

Right now it looks like PhpWiki is set up for a half-dozen different
authentication schemes which are only half working and only a quarter
documented. Being able to handle authentication arbitrarily from outside,
bypassing all of this, could greatly simplify things, especially for sites
which already are running custom user authentication for other sections that
doesn't conform to any of the schemes PhpWiki currently is hoping to
support.

Whit