Fantastic, I'll look into that. I would love to hear about your
implementation but I have to look into what Namespaces even mean in the
MediaWiki realm (very green).
Thanks again.
--
Kevin Holleran
Master of Science, Computer Information Systems
Grand Valley State University
Master of Business Administration
Western Michigan University
CISSP, GISP, GXPN, GCFA, GCFE, PCIP, PCI ISA, Cisco CCNA, ICCP ISA,
Microsoft MCSA
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Larry Silverman <lsilverman(a)trackabout.com
wrote:
> You'll want
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication
>
> I don't believe you'll have much luck with access controls based on
> categories, but I could be wrong. Category membership is controlled by
> wikitext in the page content itself. I haven't seen any access control
> mechanisms that can work with categories.
>
> Namespaces would be a better place to attempt access controls.
>
> I've done this in my own wiki. I'd be happy to share how we did it.
>
> Larry Silverman
> Chief Technology Officer
> TrackAbout, Inc.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Kevin Holleran <holleran.kevin(a)gmail.com
> >
wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > I was wondering if this was possible before I invest a lot of time into
> it.
> >
> > I am using an instance of MediaWiki as an internal knowledge base. I
> have
> > a variety of categories for different functions. I was wondering if I
> > could do one of the following:
> >
> > 1.) Integrate with Active Directory. If the user is in the Wiki-ReadOnly
> > group, they can only read pages and NOT change them. If they are in the
> > Wiki-Write group, they can read & edit pages.
> >
> > OR (the gold state)
> >
> > 2.) Have different read and write groups for each category. For
> instance,
> > I use the wiki to document how we go about malware analysis and would
> like
> > some people to be able to see this to use as a reference when working a
> > case, but most people do not need to see this.
> >
> >
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kevin
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