yup...the strange thing was - I had the permissions at 0774 - it wasn't working, then I switched to your suggestions, 666 - it started to work. then I switched back to 0774, and it's now working with those permissions as well... i don't really want to give the 'world' write permissions, that would really kill the server, but, turns out, I don't have to, since it's now working with just 0764...
strange, but thank you! one hurdle passed, X more to go before this thing is all set-up... On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Greg T. Grimes <[email protected]> wrote: > > It sounds like the webserver doesn't have write permissions to the .htpasswd > file. This is a good thing though. You don't want the webserver editing > your .htpassd or .htaccess files. This has hacker hay day written all over > it if you allow it. I use ldap for my user authentication so I'm not > familiar with how pmWiki works with .htpasswd. But I do know what you > described sounds like. You can test it by changing the permisions on the > .htpasswd file. > > chmod 666 .htpasswd > > That's for linux. > > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Sofia M wrote: > >> ping >> someone, please give me some suggestions as to what this might be - or >> I might have to dump the PMwiki idea alltogether, this is just too >> much trouble.. >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Sofia M <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> so, after a few unsuccessful stints trying to figure out AuthUser, I >>> was recommended to switch to UserAuth (cookbook) solution. >>> I installed it, and it seems to be working fine... except - it doesn't >>> let me add new users. >>> >>> Here's a scenario: >>> I'm logged in as an administrator, and I go to ?action=admin >>> I'm presented with the page for adding users, however, when I click on >>> the 'add user' link and fill out all the information for that user, I >>> click on 'Add', and it takes me back to ?action=admin page where the >>> user I thought I just created ISN'T listed. >>> >>> when I look at the .htpasswd page on the server, it looks like nothing >>> has changed - that user really isn't added >>> Now, if I manually edit the .htpasswd file and add users directly in >>> there, those users then show up in the ?action=admin pages, with all >>> the 'abilities'... >>> Now, why won't it let me create users from the interface but will pick >>> them up if they're written in .htpasswd ? >>> >>> thanks, >>> Sofia >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pmwiki-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users >> > > -- > Greg T. Grimes > Senior Network Analyst > Information Technology Services > Mississippi State University > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
