Re: [Phpwiki-talk] username/password setup for PHPWiki 1.3.7 on UbuntuLinux

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

please ask at the appropriate support forum, which is debian.

all these 1.3.7 problems were fixed years ago.
we are currently close to 1.3.11


> Dear all
>
> I just had the chance to set up a Ubuntu Linux box with a PHPWiki 1.3.7.
> It works fine now - but I am still a PHPWiki newbie :)
>
> I managed to setup the "admin" user with password, and now I need to add
>  user names who can edit the pages. I intend to run with
> REQUIRE_SIGNIN_BEFORE_EDIT=true, and I don't want to mess with an LDAP
> authentification. Since the source seems to be the best source of
> documentation, It seems that the username/password validation type I
> want  to focus on is the ALLOW_HTTP_AUTH_LOGIN, so if the user validates
> by  some username and passwd through Apache, then this username is
> directly  used by PHPWiki.
>
> But from
> http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/ExternalAuthentication
> it seems that this ALLOW_HTTP_AUTH_LOGIN is still "todo".
> Can anyone comment here?
>
> Should I rather go for a (.e.g.) MySQL database?
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter Toft, Ph.D. [pt...@li...] http://pto.linux.dk
>
>  Audience:  What do you want, Eric?
>  Eric:  I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck.
>  Richard:  Any software that isn't free sucks.
>  Linus:  I'm interested in free beer.


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