Thanks, Peter, this is very helpful. Don On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 2:28 AM, Peter Bowers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 2:57 AM, Donald Z. Osborn <[email protected]> wrote: >> A couple of quick questions about passwords. It's been a while since I >> have worked on this, and the help file hasn't really clarified what I >> need to know: > > Always check pmwiki.org. In this case a google of "pmwiki passwords" > or "site:pmwiki.org passwords" both give you several helpful pages. > >> 1) Do passwords in the config file override anything attempted with attr? > > Please see http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Passwords#priority. This > page and the PasswordsAdmin page will be very helpful. > > Page overrides group. Group overrides default (any "read", "edit" or > "attr" password that you set in config.php). Admin (set in > config.php) overrides everything. > >> 2) If not, and one can set the site password from the wiki (and not by >> going to the config file), then at what level would one do that? >> >> a) Site/GroupAttributes?action=attr ?? (but it says "(set by site) >> ****" next to the box for the new password) > > This means that *for pages in the group Site* you are using the site > password for attributes (set in config.php). If you are trying to set > a password for the entire site that has to be done in config.php as > far as I know. > > [Slightly off-topic -- what the OP is doing makes intuitive sense. > Having a special page akin to Group.GroupAttributes that was named > Site.SiteAttributes would make things a lot more user-friendly for > non-technical administrators. Maybe it would need to be $Enable'd > since it does expose the site if access is obtained...] > >> b) Main/GroupAttributes?action=attr ?? (but it says "@lock" next to >> the box for the new password) > > This means that for pages in the group Main you are using the admin > password. In other words, if you are getting spam in the Main group > then someone has your admin password. If that's the case you have no > option but to get access to config.php and change it! ASAP > > -Peter
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