Re: [Mediawiki-l] [quickhack] require a specific user to view a page

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:58:25 +0100 Moritz Karbach mailinglist@karba.ch wrote:

Hi,

as my very private Wiki grew larger, a few people liked to use it as well. So I needed to protect the sites, that are really private. Since some kind of user rights is scheduled for version 1.5, here comes a quickhack:

Wiki Version: 1.3.5 (maybe it works on later versions as well)

Insert the following into Title.php, function userCanRead(), right after the globals have been defined (for me it's line 550):

            # inserted by m:o
            global $wgRequireUser;
            $siteName = $this->getPrefixedText(); # pagename
            $requiredUser = $wgRequireUser[$name];
            $allowed = true;
            foreach(  $wgRequireUser as $siteRegExp =>
            $requiredUser ){
                    $check= preg_match("/$siteRegExp/",
                    "$siteName");

                    if( $check==1 &&
                    $wgUser->getName()!=$requiredUser ) {
                            $allowed = false;
                    }
            }
            if( ! $allowed ) return false;
            # /inserted by m:o

Then insert the following in your LocalSettings.php at the end, just before the '?>':

# # inserted by m:o # # set access rights # # usage: # "regular expression that matches the site you want to protect" => "required user" # # examples: # "^Linux" matches all sites beginning with "Linux" # "Linux" matches all sites containing "Linux" # "Linux$" % ending with "Linux" # $wgRequireUser = array ( "^Hauptseite:private$" => "Mo", "^Tbd$" => "Mo", "^Desy" => "Mo", "^Grid" => "Mo", "^Logbook$" => "Mo" );

Nice! I've been looking for something like this. (Sorry, I haven't studied enough of the Mediawiki code to comment on the security aspect yet.)

Thanks, Jacob