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]]
I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand.
They would still be compiled the regular way;
I'll have another look at [[plugins/httpauth]] but I really like the openID whole idea.
--[[emptty]]
How about
mod_auth_openid, then?
A plugin for ikiwiki to serve its own pages is far afield from ikiwiki's roots,
as Joey pointed out, but might be a neat option to have anyway -- for unifying
authentication across views and edits, for systems not otherwise running
web servers, for systems with web servers you don't have access to, and
doubtless for other purposes. Such a plugin would add quite a bit of flexibility,
and in that sense (IMO, of course) it'd be in the spirit of ikiwiki. --[[schmonz]]
Yes, I think this could probably be used in combination with ikiwiki's
httpauth and openid plugins. --[[Joey]]
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