Ok, thank you. Mike
Petko Yotov wrote on 25.09.2009 22:30: > On Friday 25 September 2009 16:42:24 Mike wrote: >> Hello everyone, > > Hello! > >> Now I have a particular page which I want to be available to all users >> of the @readers group, as well as to anyone who know one of four passwords. >> >> So I set the read attribute to >> @readers pw1 pw2 pw3 pw4 >> >> Now unfortunately, if after 4 months I come back and forgot which >> passwords I distributed, I cannot determine this anymore. All I see is >> @readers *** *** *** ***. >> >> Would there be any way to find out in a way as convenient as possible, >> which passwords have been set for which page? > > No, the page does not store the real passwords, but one-way encoded hashes -- > it can verify that the user knows the real password, but cannot decode back > the password from the hash. > > It's a security measure, to prevent an attacker who managed to get the disk > files to learn your real passwords. > >> In particular, the problem arises when I want to distribute one more >> password but maybe forget one of the older ones: it then becomes >> unusable which I did not want to achieve. > > If you disable a password because you don't remember it, the people who use > it > will call you, and you can fix it at that time. You can leave them a message > not to panic, on your page [[Site.AuthForm]], it will appear on the login > form. > > Thanks, > Petko > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
