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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-01-16 11:14:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-01-16 11:14:33 -0500 |
| commit | 50b59896d97511ee6f4ace6c42b63462b45abd53 (patch) | |
| tree | aad5c2e1ac6547cffb032e551e40da20f809696f /doc/plugins/passwordauth.mdwn | |
| parent | 4948a3188967bdaa7c2646e78b43ccf70603e8c1 (diff) | |
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web commit by JeremyReed: Document account_creation_password -- some of this text taken from original todo.
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/passwordauth.mdwn b/doc/plugins/passwordauth.mdwn index 84c63c4af..22a0776ed 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/passwordauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/passwordauth.mdwn @@ -7,3 +7,11 @@ changing passwords in the prefs page. It is enabled by default, but can be turned off if you want to only use some other form of authentication, such as [[httpauth]] or [[openid]]. + +When the *account\_creation\_password* configuration option is enabled with +a pass-phrase, this plugin supports an "account creation password" as a +simplistic anti-spam measure. +(Some wikis edited by a particular group use an account creation password +as an "ask an existing member to get an account" system.) + + |