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@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!
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