"Burness,Phil" wrote:
>
> I have read the httpd.conf file but am not very experienced in this area.
I know, there might probably some "password" confusion. Here is the
gist:
In principle, two types of passwords play a role. There is one and only
one mysql-password which is used when midgard changes data in its
database. This is found in httpd.conf together with the databes name and
the user who "owns" the midgard database.
It my look like this:
MidgardUsername
midgard
MidgardPassword
midgard
MidgardDatabase midgard
Access restriction of midgard pages is a completely different matter. It
is based on groups. Persons belong to groups and have passwords too. In
the admin interface, these things are managed from "Group
Administration". These passwords are stored in the person table of the
midgard database. After installation, the administrator has the name
"admin" and the password "midgard", IIRC. It is highly recommended to
changes this soon.
One classical non-midgard method of access restriction is the usage of
.htaccess and a password file maintained by a prgram called htpassword.
You do not have to fiddle with this. This type of access restriction is
not used at all by midgard.
Instead, in midgard, you can set "authentication: required" for a
particular sub-page or for the root page. Content management is also
based on ownership, i.e. only members of that group(s) who "own" a topic
tree are allowed to change it.
Frank
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