On 5/17/07, ThomasP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody in the pmwiki community, > > I have waited quite long but it is meanwhile more than time for this > announcement: > > The new UserAuth module, called UserAuth2, is there! > > Originally actually thought only as a reimplementation of the former one, > this module introduces some new features that I just happened to need. To > name a few of them: > > * silent granting of permissions based on IP address > * wildcards in specifying page permissions > * page permissions depending on $AuthId, allowing "personally" accessible > pages > > Thomas > > ======================================== > > One may ask: why holding up another authorization module besides AuthUser? > The thing is that I had the impression (maybe only from myself) that many > newcomers to PmWiki tend to opt for a more "intuitive" (simple? familiar?) > way of handling the authentication/authorization than is provided by > AuthUser. (Note the quotation marks: I meanwhile can see quite clearly the > advantages of AuthUser, still I would suggest that having the choice in > the beginning is preferable.) > > There are also other points which may be of long term interest: > > For example Kathryn recently wanted to open up discussion pages alongside > "usual" pages which would be editable also for guests. The point was not > to screw up the page name format for this end. With UserAuth2 this could > be done easily having a > > ed_*-Discussion > > entry in the GuestUsers permission table. > > The question is (as motivated by IchBin's question about JITS with > AuthUser), and I would like to invite some discussion about this: > > How much compatibility support should UserAuth2 provide to and expect from > other Cookbook recipes in the future? > > I would not mind to see UserAuth2 to be interchangably usable besides > AuthUser if this is "technically possible" (this would be the most > desirable solution for many users (to come)), which would need at least > some initial coordination and standardization and will lead probably to > some extra work, possible also on other recipes. > > I'm open for other ideas though. > > Thomas
I'd find it helpful to know what advantages UserAuth2 offers over AuthUser. It would seem finding a way to add those in to AuthUser would be a preferable path. At least it's what I've tried to do with the MemberMgmt recipe and ZAP's authentication scheme--which tries to tie into and expands AuthUser's capabilities. But then again, if there are various UserAuth2 features not possible in AuthUser, that's a different story. Could you shed a little light here on the main advantages of UserAuth. I've never used it, and there may be others here who would be interested in exploring it more. Cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
