On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 20:56, Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 3:54:22 PM, Vince Administration wrote: > > > The idea is to have read access to anyone, but > > posting only for authenticated users. For a start I would like the > > users to authenticate themselves by filling in a form. > > Not sure how this can be done. The standard way for granting users > some authorisation in PmWiki would be to install PmWiki.AuthUser > and add user id's to SiteAdmin.AuthUser. > > Fox or FoxForum has no separate user management. It is perceivable > that Fox could be used to add userid/password pairs to > SiteAdmin.AuthUser. But that alone will not grant any access rights. > The userid needs to be added to a @group as well. Fox could do that > too I guess. And then that user group, say call it @forummembers, can > be used as id for an edit password for the Forum wiki group, > and you set for that Forum group $FoxAuth = 'edit'; > > Of course the initial NewForumMember form needs to be able/allowed to > post (add) to SiteAdmin.AuthUser. > > This may work (not tried any of this), but as soon as we let users > add themselves plus password to SiteAdmin.AuthUser we have the problem > to check first if the userid does already exist. And most likely > users would like to be able to change their password. I don't see any > simple solution there. > > Oh, I just remember: there is this recipe to check out: > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/HtpasswdForm > It has (amongst many others) this config option: > > $HtpasswordNewUsers > When set to 1, a new user form is provided to unauthenticated users, > allowing them to register themselves (defaults to 0). > > This may well be the ticket! and forget all I wrote above about > adding users with Fox! > > > ~Hans >
I couldn't provide more details :) -- Dominique _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users