[pmwiki-users] Concern about insert vs edit

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Oct 1 23:17:01 CDT 2006


On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:43:04PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2006-10-01  10:23 PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> >If the way I'm heading is going to be too confusing, it's not too
> >late to change things, but just as people expect the "read" password
> >to protect a page from being read (by any action), I suspect we
> >want the "edit" password to default to protecting a page from
> >being written (by any action).
> 
> It may just be a language issue, but I expect "edit" to mean that I 
> can change what is there on the page while "comment" is akin to 
> adding marginal notes to an existing page without modifying the original.

This is exactly what I'm looking at; "edit" means ability to
change content, while "insert" means ability to add content but
not change what is already there.

> One thing that would be definitely bad, would be to have "comment" 
> privileges grant "edit" privileges (but edit privileges should grant 
> comment privs.) Perhaps a password and privilege matrix would make 
> things clearer.

All of PmWiki's built-in privileges are orthogonal to each other,
and the comment ("insert") privilege will be no different in this 
respect.  Or, stated more plainly, comment privileges do not 
grant edit privileges.

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