Re: Authentication puzzles

2009/9/9 Antony Stone <[email protected]>:
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:35, Reini Urban wrote:
>
>> 2009/9/9 Antony Stone <[email protected]>:
>> > On Sunday 06 September 2009 14:02, Antony Stone wrote:
>> >> ; True User Authentication:
>> >> ; To require user passwords:
>> >> ;   ALLOW_ANON_USER = false
>> >> ;   ALLOW_ANON_EDIT = false
>> >> ;   ALLOW_BOGO_LOGIN = false,
>> >> ;   ALLOW_USER_PASSWORDS = true.
>> >> ; Otherwise any anon or bogo user might login without any or a wrong
>> >> password.
>> >>
>> >> I have set all four variables to the required values and restarted
>> >> Apache, and yet it is still possible to log in with a random username
>> >> and no password (ie: a Bogo login).  How do I get the functionality as
>> >> documented - True User Authentication?  Do I need to reset / reconfigure
>> >> / restart something else after changing the config.ini file?
>
>> Tell us your USER_AUTH_ORDER
>> These are effective with ALLOW_USER_PASSWORDS
>>
>> If you have e.g. USER_AUTH_ORDER = "BogoLogin : PersonalPage"
>> BogoLogin is in use as you observed.
>
> I have not explicitly set USER_AUTH_ORDER (the instructions for getting True
> User Authentication don't tell me I need to), therefore I expect the setting
> to have the value in /usr/share/phpwiki/config/config-default.ini, which is:
>
> USER_AUTH_ORDER = PersonalPage
>
> Should I select "USER_AUTH_ORDER = Db" instead (since I am using a MySQL
> backend database, I'd quite like all the authentication data to be in there
> as well)?

Yes, please.
"USER_AUTH_ORDER = Db" for Mysql auth

> Thanks for the reply - it's good to see there's someone else around here :)

Most of the developers are rather busy
-- 
Reini Urban
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