Re: Oddmuse Passwords (was Re: Website Updates) (fwd)

[Etienne Grossmann]

  Hi All,

who wants a password to edit the wiki? This offer is for non-spammers
only! If you qualify, send me your password and I'll add it to the
list of passwords. This should at last loosen a little bit the
conditions for editors.

  You or anyone else can then use your pwd from anywhere. For our
security, please [1] <<"log out" if you are "logged in" from a public
terminal, by using the password action and not providing a password.>>
Logging in/out, aka "using the password action," would be done by
going to http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?action=password.

  Is everyone ok w/ this? 

  Cheers,

  Etienne

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 06:42:11PM -0500, Bill Denney wrote:
# You mentioned in the previous e-mail that you didn't know how to set 
# passwords on oddmuse.  Here is the info.
# 
# Bill
# 
# -- 
# "hee hee, i have a pony."  -- Amy Feingold
# 
# 
# ---------- Forwarded message ----------
# Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:43:10 -0500 (EST)
# From: Bill Denney <address@hidden>
# To: address@hidden, address@hidden, 
# address@hidden
# Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
# Subject: Re: Website Updates
# 
# According to http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Passwords, you can add a 
# variable to the config file called $EditPass with a space separated list of 
# passwords:
# 
# $EditPass
# 
# Default: empty
# 
# This is a string containing a list of passwords separated by whitespace. 
# Thus, 'foo bar' defines two passwords, 'foo' and 'bar'. Any user having set 
# one of these passwords is considered to be an editor for the wiki.
# 
# Bill
# 
# On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Etienne Grossmann wrote:
# 
# >
# > Hi All,
# >
# >we can try to set the wiki w/ a password, if oddmuse (the wiki prog)
# >allows. If someone knows exactly what should be done, send me
# >braindead instructions and I can give it a try. Since I am traveling
# >until the 21st, I can only spend a wee bit of time at a time on this
# >question; else I can look into it after the 21st. Else you can send me
# >your IP and I can add it to the wiki so you can edit.
# >
# > Cheers, thx for proposing to contribute & sorry for the hurdle
# > before allowing you to edit the wiki...
# >
# > Etienne
# >
# >On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 06:27:16PM -0500, Tom Holroyd (NIH/NIMH) [E] wrote:
# ># >Also, if anyone would like to help with maintaining the web pages,
# ># >please let John and me know.  I'm working to bring the pages up to date,
# ># >but it would be nice in the future to have maintenance handled by
# ># >several people so that there is not just one person who is the webmaster
# ># >but a team.
# >#
# ># It seems the Wiki is a good place for this sort of thing ... I haven't 
# >been
# ># around lately so I don't know if that's been discussed much.  In 
# >particular
# ># I just tried to make a change and editting was denied.  By IP it seems.
# ># Wouldn't it make more sense to just have a password, and post that here?
# ># Then I could change where it says:
# >#
# >#    * For a logical-or, Octave can use `|' or `||'; Matlab requires `|'.
# >#    (note: Octave's '||' and '&&' return a scalar, '|' and '&' return
# >#    matrices)
# >#
# ># (found on http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?MatlabOctaveCompatibility)
# >#
# ># to this:
# >#
# >#    * In Octave, the '|' operator does not shortcut, while '||' does; this
# >#    is the same as the behavior in C.  In Matlab, both the '|' and the 
# >'||'
# >#    operators shortcut.  Thus an expression like "f(a) | g(b)" will cause
# >#    both f() and g() to run in Octave, but in Matlab g() won't run if f(a)
# >#    returns true.
# >#
# ># That old description is just wrong.  Not sure about the note.
# >#
# ># --
# ># Dr. Tom Holroyd
# ># The 9th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:
# ># "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
# ># construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
# >
# >-- 
# >Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.cs.uky.edu/~etienne
# >
# 
# -- 
# "... doing legal research is by far the most fun and creative part of
# the law, from my perspective. It's like playing jazz."
#   -- Pamela Jones,
#      http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041018201653648

-- 
Etienne Grossmann ------ http://www.cs.uky.edu/~etienne



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