[pmwiki-users] Locking Down Creation Of Groups

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:43:36AM +0000, Alan Perryman wrote:
> My supervisor wants the wiki setup so that only people with "admin" access
> can create new page groups.
> 
> Is this possible?

Assuming that each group has a "RecentChanges" page, add the following
to your local/config.php:

    $rc = FmtPageName('$Group.RecentChanges', $pagename);
    if (!PageExists($rc)) 
      $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = '*';

With this in place, only people with admin privileges will be able
to create pages in non-existing groups.  Once such a page is created,
however, editing will be controlled by the normal edit parameters.

Pm