Why-Login

From STNE Wiki

• Registration, it sets at a fixed user access. This is not absolutely necessary - you can use many features of the STNE wiki without registration.

Benefits of a Login

• 1. The application offers the ability to customize the appearance and functionality of the STNE wiki to your needs.
• 2. Possible associate contributions to discussions and make contact with each other by the account. This greatly facilitate communication – it is but somehow more comfortable with a particular designated players to talk than with one IP address. On talk pages with contributions after a login --Naranda 15:56, 17 September 2010 (CEST) (two hyphens, four tildes) sign. The wiki software then automatically makes a name signature.
• 3. In addition to article as a registered user (for example those oneself has written or significantly modified) put on its watch list and get a view which sides something changed.

Email

The STNE wiki is able to send E-Mails. This applies to user e-mail messages as well as for the possible sending passwords.

The user shall disclose his email address on his user page, he must be aware that the address can be misused by third parties, for example spam harvesters for spam purposes.

Of course you must consider basic precautions in the use of your E-Mail address in the use of the Internet.

Cookies

STNE wiki detects user through a cookie that is managed with the help of the browser on the user's device. The cookie contains a user ID with which the wiki software on the server auseinanderhält user's settings.

Cookies need to be enabled otherwise the wiki can not identify the user.

Setting stores "Permanent login" on the sign and Settings page password (encrypted) in a cookie. You do not enable this option so you must log in again after a certain period of inactivity. On public computers you should not enable of course this setting because otherwise other people then can login under his own name.

Change user name

For technical reasons, a user account can be deleted again worked with him. Change username requires a direct access to the database. When changing the user name mapping the related changes in the version history, but not posts signed with the old name. Also previous modifications or work under an IP address can be subsequently assigned to a user.

Problems

The password manager of Mozilla Firebird 0.7 browser stores the credentials not. The behavior is unfortunately also reproducible with Firefox 0.8. This problem no longer occurs in later versions.