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I had a wordpress site cracked, and given Geeklog's "focus on security," I just installed the latest Geeklog v1.4xxxx. Unfortunately I have been a bit confused by several things... it looks like either the installation information needs some attention or I totally missed some big things.

Please correct me if I'm off track:

In the installation documentation at /docs/install.html it says:



I did all that, but I wanted the people running the site to be able to upload photos, so after digging and digging I realized two things:

1) Unless I'm missing an image upload feature I haven't seen (needs a plugin?) I first have to activate FCKeditor in the config.php file.

2) Once I activate FCKeditor, it actually points to a DIFFERENT directory, so I had to chmod public_html/images/library/

SO... what are those other image directories used by? Should I set a config file in FCKeditor to point to one of those others? If I install an image managing plugin, will it point to the FCKeditor library directory, or to one of the other directories I already futzed with?

Please forgive me if I'm off track here.

There is an image upload available without FCKeditor, but only for (Story) Admins, not for normal users.

Not sure about the FCKeditor path - have to check that ...

bye, Dirk

Thank you!

Is there a place where the privileges for each user type is listed?



Thanks... I see there's a discussion about FCKeditor things at http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=advanced-editor

It says there's an updated version of FCKeditor... and that the new version removes the thumbnail view of the image files, so I'd better go ahead and upgrade it before the users see it. (If it's unstable, better they never see that in the first place! Otherwise they will be upset that I took away that feature.)

In the Admin's "Users" and "Groups" sections, obviously ...

bye, Dirk

Hmmm... I looked at the Story Admin group and saw nothing about image upload privileges. In fact when you click Edit, the text is boilerplate, saying it's a core group so the rights cannot be edited, they are "(story.edit), (story.moderate) and (story.ping)". I looked at the group editor page and it seems to list all the rights as checkboxes but I didn't see any description of what each one includes. No mention of image upload....

So based on your response I assume this is the most detail I can find on the rights...

Thank you for your assistance!

There is no separate right for image uploads. As I wrote above: If you have access to the Admin's story editor, then you can upload images. So it's an implicit right of the story.edit permission.

bye, Dirk