[pmwiki-users] 2 different secure paths with PMWiki

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

Stewart Apelzin wrote:
> Hello.  My company will be using PMWiki for two uses; to share 
> information amongst employees, and to share information with customers.  
> We generally don’t want the customers to be able to see our employee 
> pages.  However, we may want to share some specific employee info with 
> customer (knowledge base information).
> 
> Setting up page-by-page security will be a daunting task.  Are we better 
> off instead setting up two separate wikis (via a farm)?  If we do this, 
> is there a mechanism that we can use to share pages from one wiki to the 
> other – other than copying them manually?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> S Apelzin

You could use a single wiki with password access to different groups. I 
do exactly this on public and private wikis.

On the public wiki (http://neil.eton.ca/wiki/) some of the groups are 
password protected. Each group has its own shared password - so all the 
users have the same password.

On the private wiki (no URL, since you can't get to it!) I use Apache 
Basic Authentication. Users are granted access to different groups 
depending on their authenticated ID. This is much more secure and finer 
grained than the public scheme, but it could be overkill for some cases.

-- 
Neil Herber
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