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

[John Yu]

Moritz,

I also have a similar requirement and have thought of the following 
scheme: if a page is in the [[Category:Private]] category, it'll only be 
viewable/editable by registered users (and, of course, the 
[[Special:Userlogin]] page is protected). This is more flexible than 
regex matching.

However, I'm not fluent in PHP and didn't have the time to work out the 
implementation... :-(
--
John

Moritz Karbach 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"
>);
>
>
>Maybe someone can comment on possible disadvantages or security holes?
>
>Cheers,
>
>- Moritz
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