The message I get (in spanish, sorry):
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Lo sentimos, pero no tiene permisos para acceder a ninguno de los blogs en esta instalación. Si cree que este mensaje se le muestra por error, por favor, contacte con su administrador de Movable Type.
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Part of mt-config.cgi:
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# == Auth ==
AuthenticationModule BasicAuth
ExternalUserManagement 1
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Any ideas?
]]>Ref: http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/developer/mtauth.html
]]>Regards,
]]>Well, that parameter is only to autocreate the users if they are authenticated by other methods. Let's assume I comment it out, I already created my user in MT before attempting external auth.
I downloaded the free version and from the code I can see the BasicAuth module is included.
lib/MT/Auth/
BasicAuth.pm
LiveJournal.pm
MT.pm
OpenID.pm
TypeKey.pm
Vox.pm
I just took a look in Ciro's problem and i found the problem.
when you install MT or MTOS, you create an admin user.
in my case i called it mixel.
after install, and set up mt ot use the BasicAuth, and log in as mixel via http basic auth, mt toldme exaclty what Ciro saids.
A little view in the mt_author table give as the reason, we have 2 users called mixel, the first is the created by mt on the instalation with a id 1, and the other, is the created for the BasicAuth.
What you can do is simply change the author_auth_type from the first from MT to BasicAuth, and delete the second user.
After the change you can relogin into mt and now you are the full admin of mt.
I talked with ciro last night and this solved his problem.
Kind regards
So basically, the current workaround for Apache authentication involves setting author_auth_type='BasicAuth' (direct database edit) for the first admin user after setting up the authentication.
Also apparently found a bug, when external authentication is used, you can't submit changes to fields "Public name" and "e-mail" as all the password related fields disappear and the form still thinks "Password Hint" is mandatory
]]>That still doesn't address the issue. The feature is functionally broken in its current state because you couldn't assign Movable Type privileges to the second user when you switched the authentication mechanism. What this means is that you can authenticate a user, but not authorize a user, in this package, and that's a problem because authentication is only the first step.
]]>Not perfect but it works.
]]>What about if the admin could change the way the users login?
For example you can just intall your mt, setup all your blogs, maybe some users, then change the your own way to login to BasicAuth. Then you can setup everything to use BasicAuth and you are done.
When you need to come back for some reason to normal login you can do it whit a simple change in your user. So no dangerous changes in the database or workarounds.
]]>when you login for first time into mt via BasicAuth, mt creates an entry into mt_author, but with no privileges.
As system administrator you can give any privilege to that user.
Basically the main problem is for the first user, the full adminstrator, that can't sing using BasicAuth.
Kind Regards
Pd sorry for typos in previous comments.
]]>The application supports static page generation (in which files for each page are updated whenever the content of the site is changed), dynamic page generation (in which pages are composited from the underlying data as the browser requests them), or a combination of the two techniques.
Movable Type optionally supports LDAP for user and group management and automatic blog provisioning.
Thanks
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Michelle