doc/todo/ACL.mdwn



How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
something, that I think is very valuable.

ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]


I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page.
It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something,
and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something?
--[[Ethan]]


Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --[[Joey]]


Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]


Also see [[!debbug 443346]].
I am considering giving this a try, implementing it as a module.
Here is how I see it:


a new preprocessor directive allows to define ACL entries providing permissions
for a given (user, page, operation), as in:

Each would expand to a description of the resulting rule.


a configurable page of the wiki would be used as an ACL list.
Possibly could refer to other ACL pages, as in: