[Mediawiki-l] ACL, Access Control List, cur_restrictions

[Jan Steinman]

I've added a field to mw_user that is membership type: an enum with 
'non-member', 'supporter', 'member', 'director'. Only the latter two 
are allowed to view certain content. I hacked the Security extension to 
do that. Pages with <security></security> cause the Security extension 
to check the membership type of the current user and display or not 
accordingly.

Certainly not 128-bit DES, nor even a full ACL implementation, but 
enough to allow members to view each other's personal info (phone, 
address, interests, etc.) without letting the whole world in on it.

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