Are there any notes that indicate that this issue has been corrected by a more recent release?
Shouldn't the protect prevent you from editing a page that has been protected? It says that the page can only be edited by a Sysop, but it's allowing anyone to edit it.
Mike Kingery Director of Technical Services Health Level Seven International +1 (919) 636-4032
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Platonides Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 6:49 PM To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Protect tab not working the way I expected
Michael Kingery (HL7) wrote:
Here's the basic information about my install:
MediaWiki 1.12.0 PHP 5 Database MySQL
What I'm looking to do is to allow any user with edit permissions to
be
able to Protect a page so that only Sysops are able to edit /
unprotect
it. To do this I turned on the Protect tab with the following code in the LocalSettings.php file:
# Only allow users and sysops to protect a page $wgGroupPermissions['*']['protect'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['protect'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['protect'] = true;
The Protect tab does show up now, and you can protect a page, but when ANYONE with edit privileges goes to edit they are able to do so regardless of unprotecting the page or being a sysop. When editing, it does show the following message, but lets you edit and save anyways:
WARNING: This page has been locked so that only users with sysop privileges can edit it.
Any thoughts?
First thought: You are using an insecure mediawiki version released more than two years old. There have been four major versions since.
Second one: The protect right allows you to protect a page, unprotect a page and edit protected pages.
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