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authorJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-01-16 11:14:33 -0500
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2008-01-16 11:14:33 -0500
commit50b59896d97511ee6f4ace6c42b63462b45abd53 (patch)
treeaad5c2e1ac6547cffb032e551e40da20f809696f
parent4948a3188967bdaa7c2646e78b43ccf70603e8c1 (diff)
web commit by JeremyReed: Document account_creation_password -- some of this text taken from original todo.
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@@ -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.)
+
+