[pmwiki-users] Prevent page deletion by user?

Dave Brockman daveb at oz.net
Tue Apr 3 22:35:48 CDT 2007


Jon Haupt wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Dave Brockman <daveb at oz.net> wrote:
> 
>>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
>>
> 
> 
> If this is too sneaky, you could also use the Delete action recipe
> (Cookbook/DeleteAction) and simply require an admin password to use
> the delete action.
> 
> Jon

Thanks! I'll look into that too.

Dave




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