[pmwiki-users] Read-protecting Site.*

[Ben Wilson]

On 4/12/07, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
[...]

> Administrators often want to restrict browse access to pages
> in the Site.* group.  The natural (and obvious) approach is
> to place a read password on Site.GroupAttributes, but that's
> often problematic because some pages in Site.* need read
> access in order to work properly.  These pages include:
>
[...]
>
> So, I'm thinking that perhaps the cleanest approach would be
> to add special read passwords (similar to '@nopass') to the above
> so that they can be accessed even when the Site group is
> read protected.
>
> Thoughts?

Funny you should mention that. I just deployed a wiki that is private
except for Main.*, and had to go to just those pages to @nopass. If I
had any influence with the wonderful development effort of PmWiki
(waves two pennies seductively) I would suggest @nopass by default for
those site pages. :-)

In the alternative, could an administrator set up a list of @nopass
pages in local/config.php? That could prevent somebody from
accidentally restricting critical pages.

-- 
Ben Wilson
"Words are the only thing which will last forever" Churchill