PodWiki Authentication System

PodWiki supports basic authentication using cookies, which are expiring after
one day.

Each page can be protected separately for either reading and/or writing.
Permissions can only granted to a group of users.

Each user can be a member of one or more groups.

The administrator can configure users and groups from the SiteAdmin page which
appears if you are logged in as root.

Passwords are stored in encrypted form. So, if a user forgets his password you
(root) have to change/reset it.

The user can also change his own password if he knows the current password.

WRITE access

You can protect a page for writing which makes it possible to have read-only
pages. In this case just add an options block of the following form to the page
to be protected:

 =begin options
 
 write = sales, orderadmin
 
 =end 

In this example members of the groups 'sales' and 'orderadmin' are able to
modify the page in question.

READ access

You can also restrict read access to a page, which makes it possible to have
"private" pages which are not visible to the public.

You can configure this using this example:

 =begin options
 
 read = noc, support
 
 =end 

In this case the protected page is only visible by 'noc' and 'support' members.

