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| author | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ <http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/@web> | 2008-09-11 07:53:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2008-09-11 07:53:07 -0400 |
| commit | 91bb11721cceed3186cdf2de33d4aeae5114eb10 (patch) | |
| tree | 1def19990d87d2f3d8183a8ef3164eab91115f0b | |
| parent | d02411bac05f78b5a9184d9d0c2ed5f6fdd7b153 (diff) | |
Thoughts on ACLs
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diff --git a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn index 6b23acfae..827d4f6fa 100644 --- a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn @@ -23,6 +23,24 @@ something, that I think is very valuable. Also see [[!debbug 443346]]. +> Just a few quick thoughts about this: +> +>* I'm only thinking about write ACLs. As Joey noted, read ACLs need to be done in the web server. +>* ACLs are going to be really hard for people with direct access to the revision control system. +> Which means that we really only need to define ACLs for web access. +>* ACLs for web access can then be defined by the web master. These might not need to be +> defined in the wiki pages (although they could be). +>* Given the previous two points, can't this be done with the `match_user()` +> function defined by the [[plugins/attachment]] plugin (see the [[ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]] pagespec info) +> and the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin (see [[page_locking]])? +> +> For example, add the following to your config file: +> +> locked_pages => '!(user(john) and */Discussion) and *', +> +> would lock all pages unless you're john and editing a Discussion page. +> It's a thought anyway :-). -- [[Will]] + I am considering giving this a try, implementing it as a module. Here is how I see it: |