Minnow swiki password policy (was Re: Yet another vandalizedwiki page..)

[Doug Way]

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:09:30 -0500, "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com>
said:
> On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:51 -0400, Doug Way wrote:
> > ...
> > I happened to notice that the top swiki page
> > (http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1) was locked with a password other
> > than "squeak" or "viewpoints".  I thought we were using one of these for
> > a standard public password that most squeak regulars would know, without
> > needing the admin password.  (As far as I know, there has never been a
> > case of someone defacing the swiki who actually knew one of these public
> > passwords... it's always been unlocked pages.)  So, I set the top page
> > password to "viewpoints".
> 
> It's possible that I made a mistake.  I needed to modify this page and
> at the time the only password I could think of was 'viewpoints' and it
> didn't seem to be working.  I asked for and Jochen gave me the 'special'
> password which I used to unlock the page and edit it.  It may be that I
> mistakenly locked the page with that special password.  Or it may simply
> be that I did not replace the previously set password.  I wasn't in fact
> sure what it should be.

No problem, Ken.  Given the lack of other responses on this topic, I
think we should always go with 'viewpoints' as the default password when
a swiki page needs to be locked.

- Doug

> Related to this every time I've fixed a defaced page lately I've been
> locking it with 'viewponts'.
> 
> Ken