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grok@resist.ca wrote:
Unless you mean this is purely a _global_, "ON/OFF" setting, and not the "fine-grained" one I -- and it loox like about a thousand other people -- have asked about here.
Bingo. :)
There is some limited ability to mark individual pages as protected, requiring additional privileges to edit them. There is not support for multiple different protection groups, ACLs, or view restrictions beyond a simple 'everybody can see / no one can see without login'.
If you require that kind of restrictions, MediaWiki is not for you. I recommend using software that is designed for that security model from the ground up.
I understand very well the stance being taken by the Mediawiki developers; but it seems to me that there's a crying need for at least some sort of systematic extension/module capability for normal GNUnix-type permissions/file access, if not for ACL/SELinux type stuff.
I don't know yet how feasible this would be, but it doesn't seem impossible, or even difficult, to me. And I do understand that many Mediawiki developers have other priorities. ;>
- -- grok.
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