Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re:Userids?

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

Sounds fine... hack away! :-)

~swain

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Jeff Dairiki wrote:

> How's this for an interim solution (until we get real user
> authentication, that is)?
>
> Allow anyone to log in (via HTTP authentication,
> the same way the admin currently logs in) with any userid
> except the admin user, and any password.  This would be a
> trivial hack, and I believe would be maximally forward-compatible
> with future non bogo-authentication.
>
> I guess we don't want to allow people to set userid's which
> look like IP addresses or host names.
>
> Perhaps we should only allow people to log in with with userid's
> which are WikiWords, so as to encourage userids to be the names
> of homepages?
>
>
> Speak now or suffer the short term consequences.
>
> Jeff
>
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