On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
<sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
In response to this review, I've suggested to
the author of the
page-by-page authentication extension update the page on his site to
mark it deprecated, or remove it, and warn people not to use it. Thanks
all.
Just a note that I think our stance on per-page access restrictions
has always been: "Do this at your own risk. This is not supported and
will probably never be. We suggest you use another piece of software
if you really need this." MediaWiki really isn't designed to be a
content management system with very granular access settings, which is
why we don't officially support it.
You might want to point out these pages to him too:
* <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Restrict_viewing_of_…
* <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Security_issues_with_authorization_extensions
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Very much agreed! The original author here isn't really the audience for
that message; the people who keep searching for this functionality and
coming to his HOWTO page are. So I'll ask him to add those as well.
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation