On 9/13/05, Marcel de Ruiter zeeforel70@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi there,
Were are doing a Wiki on the Intranet of a big company. We do not want to expose the Wiki to all of the company's employees, but rather restrict access to a particular group of people.
Would it be possible to provide acccess based on IP adress-ranges (not having to provide an account and password and doing all the maintenance; resetting passwords etc.)? I know that we then do not have automatically logged in editors, but is just good to know the possibility.
Anyone else having these kind of issues on an Intranet?
If you are really trying to restrict ALL access to the wiki, I suspect that it's better to do this with the web server configuration rather than in the wiki itself. Web servers like Apache have fairly sophisticated access control mechanisms, whereas mediawiki and other wikis which follow the wiki way philosophy are designed around open access.
If its a BIG company, it's might well be that they have a corporate strategy for controlling access to corporate intranet web apps, and they would like what you do to fit into that strategy.