[Swiki-bugs] Re: Minnow swiki password policy (was Re: Yet another vandalizedwiki page..)

[Mark Guzdial]

Hi all!  Sorry -- it's the start of the semester, and Swikis are used a 
lot on GT's campus now, so Je77 and I have been dealing with start of 
the semester issues.

I'm guessing from the thread that everything has worked out.  If there 
are issues that need to be addressed with the Squeak Swiki, we are happy 
to deal with them, but since there are few Squeakers at GT now, we can't 
guarantee rapid response.

Best wishes!
  Mark


Doug Way wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:09:30 -0500, "Ken Causey" <ken at kencausey.com>
>said:
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>>On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:51 -0400, Doug Way wrote:
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>>
>>>...
>>>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.
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>>
>
>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
>
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>>Related to this every time I've fixed a defaced page lately I've been
>>locking it with 'viewponts'.
>>
>>Ken
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