Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Access control

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Tom Chance schrieb:
> I'm trying to set-up a wiki for a UK Government Commission. I'm on a very 
> limited timescale here, so I apologise profusely for asking what may be a 
> stupid and ill-researched question, but I've not yet found a solution in the 
> scattered documentation available.
> 
> I'm trying to do some very basic access control, so that there are two kinds 
> of user: those with access to read, and those with access to edit. I could 
> just give the edit group the admin password, but I'd rather not. I could do 
> some trickery with Apache's mod_auth, but I'd rather not.
> 
> Can somebody give me a quick rundown of what I need to do, if it's possible, 
> to achieve this?

Simpliest:
Use mod_auth. The anonymous user may read, all other edit.

Advanced:
Use BogoLogin or any better auth method, the WikiGroup feature, and use 
PagePermissions (ACL). (This is not fully tested yet)

For example with the GROUP_METHOD WIKIPAGE create the
CreateCategory page, list the two groups and for each group
create a page with all the members.

Then create a page '.'.
Then in PhpWikiAdministration/SetAcl set the edit permission for this 
page the the group which is allowed to edit (and change, remove).
All other pages inherit their ACL from '.'
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Reini Urban
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