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

Tony Molloy tony.molloy at uconn.edu
Tue Sep 13 13:51:38 UTC 2005


I too would like to see IP based access.

I like the idea of having google index our wiki and providing valuable
info to other institutions and libraries. But we really don't want
outsiders editing the pages. This leaves it open for spam as well.

Ideally I would be able to set an IP range that had login access. All
others would have read only access. Then I could leave the talk pages
open to editing for people to contribute if they liked.


-Tony 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-
> bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Marcel de Ruiter
> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:54 AM
> To: mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Access based on IP address-ranges possible
> (Intranet)?
> 
> 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?
> 
> By the way is it actually possible to reset a password for a user?
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Marcel
> 
> 
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