It determines which groups can perform actions on the wiki; page creation, editing, deletion, protection, blocking, etc. See the relevant lines in DefaultSettings.php and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$wgGroupPermissions for more details.
Rob Church
On 25/01/06, grok@resist.ca grok@resist.ca wrote:
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grok@resist.ca wrote:
Let me understand what is meant in setting user rights and permissions with '$wgGroupPermissions':
- Does this mean that some pages and/or groups of pages
can be set to allow editing by only certain groups or individuals?
If you hack around it _might_ work, but that's not really supported.
- And can page viewing be limited in the same manner?
Not supported at all.
So what is '$wgGroupPermissions' about, then?
- -- grok.
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