[Pmwiki-users] inching slowly towards user-based authorization

Steven Leite steven_leite
Wed Jun 16 12:24:23 CDT 2004



On Wednesday, June 16, 2004 10:03 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

>     author:alice                    only alice
>     author:alice,bob                only alice and bob
>     author:everyone                 everyone that has been
>     authenticated <blank>                         everyone,
>     authenticated or not kiwi grape                      passwords
>     "kiwi" and "grape" author:alice kiwi               alice and
>     everyone with "kiwi" password author:everyone kiwi
>     author:everyone,-bob            everyone authenticated except bob
> Comments?
>
> Pm

I love it.  I think "Bob" won't like it very much though.

Can we extend this to apply to file uploads as well?

In the recent discussion, I suggested there might be some situations
where we want to allow users to by-pass PmWiki and browse the uploads
directory through their browser, but I feel if this user-auth system
could be applied to files and attachments as well, then it would be a
small price to pay to lose that "side-effect".

It's not like somebody couldn't write a cookbook module to emulate the
clean directory display that one would normally get by browsing the
folder directly through their browser.

I hope that made some sense :)

-Steven Leite





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