[pmwiki-users] a read-only wiki

Simon nzskiwi at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 20:07:47 CDT 2008


Have you checked out http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Security
See the questions at the bottom of the page


On 14/08/2008, Sofia M <sofiam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Randy,
> However, I'd like to see all my security 'settings' in one place, so
> is there a way to set the same params as in here -
>
>
> http://www.example.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=GroupName.GroupAttributes?action=attr
>
> via config.php?
>
> whats' the syntax?
>
> I don't want to set anything via the pages or groups themselves - that
> way I'll never remember what is password-protected and what's not,
> etc..
> I'd prefer to set everything through config.php
>
> Sofia
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Randy Brown <randy at brownragfilms.com>
> wrote:
> > All the info you need should be in
> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/AuthUser.
> > If you are defining users in config.php, make sure you include the
> > authuser.php script after the user configurations.
> > Just create a group of editors and another group of administrators (or
> use
> > the built-in admin if you'll never want to share that power). Set your
> > default read permissions to @nopass and your default edit attribute and
> > upload permissions to your editors group (e.g. @Editors). For the site
> group
> > end the URL with "?n=Site.GroupAttributes?action=attr" to set the group
> > attributes for the Site group so that only the administrator(s) can edit
> in
> > that group. That should do it. If it doesn't, be specific about what
> isn't
> > working.
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Randy
> >
> >
> > On Aug 11, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Sofia M wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > For a week, I've been trying and reading up on how to make our wiki
> > 'read only' for the world, and only editable for authorized users.
> > I couldn't find one place that listed all of the small things that I
> > needed to disable, to password-protect, etc...
> > And I still can't get everything to work properly.
> >
> > Here's the set-up that I'd like:
> >
> > 1) Everything is visible to 'the world'
> > 2) All 'edits', changes in page attributes, page creations, page
> > deletions, group additions, in general - any modifications at all -
> > are only allowed to a small group of authorized users.
> > 3) Authorized users defined in local/config.php, each with their own
> > login/password, I've been trying to set that up with authuser
> > 4) Any changes to 'Site' group are allowed only for administrator.
> >
> > Seems like this should be conceptually easy to do, and in my opinion,
> > warrants some sort of a instructional manual - the only things I could
> > find on pmwiki.org were bits and pieces all in different places
> >
> > Is there a page somewhere that describes how to make this set-up work?
> > Not just 'how to prevent users from deleting pages', or 'how to
> > password-protect attribute changes' - but all of this, together, with
> > hints on what else I might be missing
> >
> > thanks,
> > Sofia
> >
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