[dokuwiki] Re: auth.php ACL question.

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:30:29 -0700
chris <jugg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is the purpose of replacing any instance of '@USER@' in the acl 
> file with the current user name?  I haven't seen any documentation 
> explaining this.  Basically that is just saying: give any
> authenticated user at least a specific access level regardless of
> group membership?

no

> What is the difference between that and just setting a default group 
> that authenticated users are part of?

none

> Was there an intended purpose for this code?

Have a look at this:

users:*          @ALL 1
users:@USER@     @USER 4

Clever, eh? Should probably be documented somewhere ;-)

Andi

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