[ewiki] Re: corrections

Hey Timm,

The "README.auth" is again not fully detailed about each step involved
setting it up (especially with the _perm_unix thingi), and as most of
the plugins are rather new, not every described feature is likely to
run out of the box (they just showed some stability in my setup, and
actually they are only there to annoy the cowiki.org crew ;)

> QUESTION 1:
>   page "system/passwd". You first must create that page and initially
> ... which I doesn't help me. Where do I find the internal/system-page(s)? Or 
> do I put a file "passwd" in the dir "system"?

To create that system "page", you'll need to enter the URL manually.
Something like "http://www.example.com/wiki/?id=edit/system/passwd"; to get
to the edit box immediately. Prepending the "edit/" is here necessary,
because else ewiki would try to show up a not-existent "passwd" $page using
a not-existent "system" $action.

Likewise you would create the groups page "wiki.php?id=edit/system/groups",
which I believe to be not all that useful initially.

> QUESTION 3:
>
> When using auth_method_http I have the problem of how to re-login, i.e. when 
> having misstyped or logged in a user1 and now wanting to log in as admin, how 
> do I do that?

No solution right now. Usually going to a page which required higher
permissions (ring level 0) should trigger the auth_method_http plugin to
init another login request.
But I guess this won't work all that auto-magically in all cases, so
currently there is in fact a need for some "ReLogIn" page, that is capable
to request another HTTP AUTH with your browser (there is no other way to
invalidate a browsers auth cache).

> QUESTION 4:
> Currently auth_perm_unix only works w/ auth_method_http and not w/ 
> auth_method_form, is that correct? (I read it somewhere, don't remember where 
> right now.)

Personally I favour the _http plugin, and this is probably why this what
written somewhere. But in most cases, the <form> plugin should also work
(it is somewhat untested if it really can intercept POSTs and thus would
work with edit/).

Just check it out, if you have some time for it. BugReports are always
welcome.

> CONTRIBUTION:

added.

> That's it so far, I hope for answers and hope that they are not to specific 
> but may lead to a more elaborate documentation of this new feature, so that 
> not other people will post annoying questions such as me.

Thank you for the notes, I'll add the missing facts. If there is already
a separate README on this issue, it won't hurt completing it :)


mario

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