MHart wrote:
I added an extension <restrict>Group or
Users</restrict> and the page
redirects if the user isn't in that group or user list.
This sounds like it will fail in numerous circumstances where text is
shown without full parsing:
* action=edit
* action=raw
* Special:Export
* diff
* text in Special:Newpages RSS feed
* diff in Special:Recentchanges RSS feed
* Search text extracts
and probably more.
In general, I strongly recommend against trying to hack in 'access
restrictions' to MediaWiki. If you *need* them, you will likely end up
with a very insecure system which will FAIL you. If you *don't* need
them, then why bother?
If you *need* access restrictions, I recommend that you use some
software which supports this explicitly. Don't just use MediaWiki
because it sounds neat or it's the first wiki you saw; you should only
use it if it's actually appropriate for your needs.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)