I have a Gallery password set (gallery config). And, the visitor password is set too.
I have a guest account set w/o option for hint. (Options: Admin info).
When I login using the visitor access, the hint is from the gallery config password shows but isn't applicable as that option isn't available in Admin options.
The same hint shows for ALL of them but only applies to the Gallery password (gallery config). All accounts from Admin info have their own passwords so the same hint doesn't apply.
If password can be set in 3 different places, how they overlap? My site isn't public so I use Gallery. I don't want to assign privileges so should I be skipping the Admin info option and use the per album per my other posts?
(if this sounds confusing, it because I am)
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Anyway, the login at the gallery level shows the gallery password hint (if there is one.) Zenphoto is not has no precognition. It does not anticipate what credentials will be presented by the user.
Here is the quick tutorial on users and passwords:
1. Admin users. These are user/passwords defined on the admin info tab. These users can log in via the admin page or at any album/gallery/search page that has password protection. Once logged in they can view any page. Their abilities as an admin are defined by their rights as set on the admin info tab.
2. Gallery user/password. This is set in the admin gallery configuration tab.
3. Search user/password. This is set in the admin gallery configuration tab.
4. album user/password. These are set on the edit page for the album.
If the viewer is not logged in as an admin (#1) then his viewing rights are determined by numbers 2,3, and 4. These passwords are all inherited. That is, to view an album with no password assigned you will need to know the password required for the album's parent. In the case of first level albums, the parent password is #2. (Note that this definition is recursive!)
Search pages are a special case of an album. The parent of the search page is the gallery.
A newer addition (or one I've recently seen) on the gallery config page is for a visitor login/password. That too will show the hint of "your pet's name" that's unrelated to their password. Still not sure of how entering gallery config login/password differs from creating it at the Options: Admin info page.
(I don't use the Search feature at all, yet so not applicable.)
Further to trac #591 which was closed as "invalid": Why would I want to give you guest access and have you change the password for every other guest who has to share that one user/password? I'm still not sure about the whole password/login concept.
You wonder why mine's passworded: I've got relatives who don't get along! 'nough said
The sign in page you are refering to can be used either by a user with admin priviledges or by a guest visitor using the password provided in the galery configuration.
I gather what you want us to do is not show the hint when the user who will sign is is one of the admin users but show it if the person is signing in will be using the guest password from the gallery configuration.
Sorry, but if I knew how to predict things like this I would be spending my time day trading rather than working on zenphoto.
Think my 'bigger' concern is the fact that this sharable password can be changed by anyone going into Admin as a "no rights" visitor.
One more time:
admin users--those whose user and password are listed on the admin info tab--can log in at the gallery login. Those users have the right to change their own password. If you give two people the same user id they get to fight about the password. If you give each their own user there is no problem.
gallery users (guest users) have no means of changing the password. They have to live with what you give them.
The choice is yours. Do what you think best.