[Mediawiki-l] [quickhack] require a specific user to view a page

[Jacob S]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:58:25 +0100
Moritz Karbach <mailinglist at karba.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> as my very private Wiki grew larger, a few people liked to use it as
> well. So I needed to protect the sites, that are really private. Since
> some kind of user rights is scheduled for version 1.5, here comes a
> quickhack:
> 
> Wiki Version: 1.3.5 (maybe it works on later versions as well)
> 
> Insert the following into Title.php, function  userCanRead(), right
> after the globals have been defined (for me it's line 550):
> 
>                 # inserted by m:o
>                 global $wgRequireUser;
>                 $siteName = $this->getPrefixedText(); # pagename
>                 $requiredUser = $wgRequireUser[$name];
>                 $allowed = true;
>                 foreach(  $wgRequireUser as $siteRegExp =>
>                 $requiredUser ){
>                         $check= preg_match("/$siteRegExp/",
>                         "$siteName");
>                         
>                         if( $check==1 &&
>                         $wgUser->getName()!=$requiredUser ) {
>                                 $allowed = false;
>                         }
>                 }
>                 if( ! $allowed ) return false;
>                 # /inserted by m:o
> 
> Then insert the following in your LocalSettings.php at the end, just
> before the '?>':
> 
> #
> # inserted by m:o
> #
> # set access rights
> #
> # usage:
> # "regular expression that matches the site you want to protect" =>
> "required user"
> #
> # examples:
> # "^Linux"  matches all sites beginning with "Linux"
> # "Linux"   matches all sites containing "Linux"
> # "Linux$"  %                 ending with "Linux"
> #
> $wgRequireUser = array (
>         "^Hauptseite:private$" => "Mo",
>         "^Tbd$" => "Mo",
>         "^Desy" => "Mo",
>         "^Grid" => "Mo",
>         "^Logbook$" => "Mo"
> );

Nice! I've been looking for something like this. (Sorry, I haven't
studied enough of the Mediawiki code to comment on the security aspect
yet.)

Thanks,
Jacob