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

Moritz,

I also have a similar requirement and have thought of the following scheme: if a page is in the [[Category:Private]] category, it'll only be viewable/editable by registered users (and, of course, the [[Special:Userlogin]] page is protected). This is more flexible than regex matching.

However, I'm not fluent in PHP and didn't have the time to work out the implementation... :-( -- John

Moritz Karbach 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" );

Maybe someone can comment on possible disadvantages or security holes?

Cheers,

• Moritz

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