[pmwiki-users] Fwd: AuthUser

2011-05-02 Thread James M
Thanks for the explanation - it makes perfect sense. James ps  Perhaps this could be made explicit on the PmWiki/AuthUser webpage. pps I also want every editor to be allowed to upload. Is there any way of making the edit and upload permissions identical (without going through group by group

Re: [pmwiki-users] Fwd: AuthUser

2011-05-02 Thread Randy Brown
On May 2, 2011, at 4:22 AM, James M wrote: ps Perhaps this could be made explicit on the PmWiki/AuthUser webpage. 1. The page http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords currently contains the following: In PmWiki, page passwords override group passwords, group passwords override the

Re: [pmwiki-users] AuthUser

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Bowers
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:08 PM, James M jamesm1...@gmail.com wrote: ... I defined in SiteAdmin/AuthUser some groups @editors - people who can edit all groups @friends - people who can edit a certain group @foe - people who can edit a second group (in fact there are 6 groups, each with its

Re: [pmwiki-users] AuthUser

2011-05-02 Thread Sandy
Also see AuthTable, except I see it's been superceded by AuthList. AuthList has most of the benefits of editing config.php, without the risks. From a quick look at AuthList, run on my own site (since pmwiki.org doesn't use user IDs. It's part of the core. The SiteAdmin/Authlist page is

Re: [pmwiki-users] AuthUser

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Bowers
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Peter Bowers pbow...@pobox.com wrote: Just for another perspective I find that in situations like this I tend to be FTP-administrator-oriented and make changes like this in my config.php rather than doing them in the GroupAttributes?action=attr section.  I just