Re: [Phpwiki-talk] user authentication

[Bernd D. <b_d...@gm...>]

hi adam,

thanks for your answer.

>> is there someone out there who already has figures out user
>> authentication with an external user authentication script? i need it
>> for my diploma. i am study graphicdesign in germany. i need something
>> like a small tutorial because i am not an php-crack. the
>> authenticationclass should be able to register/login/logout/change
>> pass/lost password function and so on.
>
> phpwiki doesn't currently support authentication logins.  partly because
> the developers haven't gotten to it yet and partly because it's not very
> "wiki" and has been low priority.

i know that userauthentication is very unwiki. but for my diploma i need 
a wiki that supports user authentication. i have heard, that it is not 
so hard to manag user authentication with an existing library. but my 
php-skills are not enough.

> you could probalby do this by setting
> up your webserver to authenticate users before they entered the wiki but
> i'm not sure how cleanly that would integrate with phpwiki (it would
> work though).

my idea is, that everyone can read the wiki. but if they want to edit 
they have to register with their emailadress.

> if you need a wiki which supports full user authentication natively you
> should check out twiki.org which is a perl based wiki mostly used for
> intranets.

i have taken a look on twiki. i am on a virtual webserver and twiki 
needs different entries in httpd.conf and requires that cgi scripts can 
be executed from everywhere. so it will not run on my server and my 
perl-skills are lower then my php-skills ;)

so if anyone has figured out how userauthentication works it would be 
very usefull for me.

bernd

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