[Mediawiki-l] [quickhack] require a specific user to view a page
John Yu
jyu at objectmastery.com
Thu Jan 27 23:05:48 UTC 2005
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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