[Mediawiki-l] Access based on IP address-ranges possible (Intranet)?

[Rick DeNatale]

On 9/13/05, Marcel de Ruiter <zeeforel70 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Were are doing a Wiki on the Intranet of a big company. We do not want to expose the Wiki to all of the company's employees, but rather restrict access to a particular group of people.
> 
> Would it be possible to provide acccess based on IP adress-ranges (not having to provide an account and password and doing all the maintenance; resetting passwords etc.)? I know that we then do not have automatically logged in editors, but is just good to know the possibility.
> 
> Anyone else having these kind of issues on an Intranet?

If you are really trying to restrict ALL access to the wiki, I suspect
that it's better to do this with the web server configuration rather
than in the wiki itself. Web servers like Apache have fairly
sophisticated access control mechanisms, whereas mediawiki and other
wikis which follow the wiki way philosophy are designed around open
access.

If its a BIG company, it's might well be that they have a corporate
strategy for controlling access to corporate intranet web apps, and
they would like what you do to fit into that strategy.