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Since the release 2013-05-10 “Weatherwax” see AuthPlain plugin page For releases 2012-10-13 “Adora Belle” and older see info below |
This backend uses a plain text file conf/users.auth.php to store user information and passwords. Passwords are stored using one way encryption (aka. hashing).
The backend will be enabled with the authtype configuration option
$conf['authtype'] = "plain";
(this should be in your conf/local.php )
Empty lines, and everything after a #
character are ignored. Each line contains a colon separated array of 5 fields which are:
To create MD5 hash values from a string you could use the script encode/decode. Due to the much better built-in functions of DokuWiki this script is deprecated and only stored here for nostalgia.
Example:
andi:ece23254502f07722a98aa5b7c70baa6:Andreas Gohr:andi@splitbrain.org:admin,users,upload
Since conf/users.auth.php is a plain text file, it can be edited with any text editor.