[pmwiki-users] Prevent page deletion by user?

[Dave Brockman]

Petko Yotov wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 April 2007 13:01, Dave Brockman wrote:
> 
>>Is there a simple way to prevent a user from deleting any page in a
>>group? My PmWiki deals with the episodes of a TV series. I have created
>>blank pages for each episode in four groups. Users have edit access to
>>these pages with a password. I know a user could simply delete the page
>>text, but I would like to safeguard the page. Only admin can create
>>pages (groups, too). Any user could restore the text (I think). Thanks
>>in advance.
> 
> 
> You can change the keyword that deletes a page and tell it only to trusted 
> editors. Set this command in config.php :
> 
>     $DeleteKeyPattern = "^\\s*Abracadabra\\s*$";
> 
> The new keyword will not be "delete" as is the default installation, 
> but "Abracadabra". (You can change it of course.)
> 
> * Don't touch the other characters ^\\s*$ unless you know what they mean.
> * Don't use other symbols +.[]\/* etc. unless you know what they mean.
> 
> 
> Petko

Thanks! I'll do that.

Dave