Pm Wiki: Auth User-Talk

Q How can I access the authorization groups that the current user belongs to in order to test using that as a condition of an if statement?

forceflow: Dirty hack I found: create a lone page (DirtyHackPage) somewhere, and only give a certain group (apples, for example), the rights to read it. Then you can use (:if auth read DirtyHackPage:) to identify members of the apples group. It’s dirty, but does the trick if you only have limited amount of groups.

Q Is there any way to have groups inherit other groups (e.g. @fruits: @apples, @oranges, jack)?

Q Is it possible to list more than one .htpasswd and .htgroup file to be used?

Q I want to allow anyone to edit my wiki, but don’t want anyone else to use my name as the author.

Q I’m facing a problem with authentication using MySQL database.

I have been trying to set site-wide authorizations and getting really frustrated. I have the following lines in my config.php:

$DefaultPasswords[‘edit’] = crypt(‘edit_password’);
$DefaultPasswords[‘read’] = crypt(‘read_password’);
$DefaultPasswords[‘admin’] = crypt(‘admin_password’);
$include_once(“scripts/authuser.php”);

But I can still freely edit many pages. Some not, some yes. I’ve tried manually “clearing” passwords on pages that I seem to be able to edit.

What gives?

biocwiki.physics.indiana.edu/~abalter/pmwiki/pmwiki.php

Q Is there a way that people could self-register through AuthUser?

Chris I’m trying to do this same thing now via phpbb 3.0’s authentication and database. If that’s an option here’s how I plan on doing it. I have the phpbb 3.0 working with an sql database thanks to godaddy. I think all you need are 4 other cookbooks, AuthUserDbase dependent on AuthUser, ADOdb, DatabaseStandard. I’m going to use Cookbook:AuthUserDbase “setting for using another program’s database for authentication. Then I’ll need to figure out how to set user permissions to their own created content. I’d love to package all 4 of these cookbooks, and some default lines to add to a config.php to enable any new pmwiki hosts to easily connect to an existing database with minimal “dirty work”. Best of luck to us both, Mark (reach me at webmeister@dreamsnare.com the site I’m building is dreamsnare.com).

Please see Cookbook:AuthUserSignup for a solution to this problem. Peter Bowers October 25, 2008, at 01:45 PM

This is totally true! I’ve been working with Peter on getting this installed and I can truly say that this is the most complete authentication system for AuthUserSignup. Real Chris November 19, 2008, at 05:15 AM