Re: [Phpwiki-talk] forcing log in.

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:

> Jeff Dairiki wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:
> >
> > > is there a way to "force" contributers to sign in with a UserName
> > > before editing a page?
> >
> > Not currently.  It wouldn't be hard to hack in such a feature,
> > but it doesn't buy you much, since people can sign in with any
> > name they chose.  I'm not going to mess with it until
> > user auth gets more done --- and at that point, I think it's
> > not really a useful feature, since then you'd probably
> > rather someone sign in as a real registered user (registering
> > first if necessary).
>
>
> I don't mind the fact they can choose any name. It's just that if I
> remember well, the diff page will not put the name of the "modifier"
> unless he/she logged in. That's why I want people to log in. When they
> do, they'll use their name, that's not my worry.
>
> see what I mean? it's not nice to see a list of ips next to recent
> changes ;) I don't need a password or security thing - maybe just a
> cookie, yeah, that would be nice. A cookie :)

Cookies are what I use for the GtmWiki (http://inauspicious.org/gtmwiki/);
I never contributed the patch back since a) it is for 1.2, and b) some
config data is hardcoded in one of the files, and I couldn't think of a
cunning way to get it out. Maybe if I do then I will...

Gary

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