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I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.
I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.

I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks to a plugin similar to goto.
When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff (that I don't understand yet). If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and return this as a content.

Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file.
-- [[users/emptty]]

While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
[[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]]