[Mediawiki-l] Group Problems with MediaWiki 1.5rc4

[Jeferson Pessoa Santana]

Thanks Brion for your Help. The only thing that I don`t undestand is Why 
the GRoup thing exist??? hehe

But, Thanks anyway. =D


Brion Vibber wrote:

> Jeferson Pessoa Santana wrote:
>
>> I installed the mediawiki 1.5rc4 and I'm having some problems with the
>> User Rights Management feature. I added some groups in the
>> Localsetting.php but I don't know how to restrict some pages for these
>> groups. Example:
>>
>> I added these lines to my LocalSettings.php:
>>
>> $wgGroupPermissions = array ("Main Page", "Special:Blockip",
>> "Special:Userlogin" );
>
>
> Well, that's going to break everything right there. Why did you do that?
>
>> $wgGroupPermissions['aplications']['edit'] = true;
>> $wgGroupPermissions['aplications']['move'] = false;
>> $wgGroupPermissions['aplications']['read'] = true;
>>
>> I'm following the instructions found on the
>> ./includes/Defaultsettings.php file and I'm not certain  about the line
>> that I added:
>>
>> $wgGroupPermissions = array ("Main Page", "Special:Blockip",
>> "Special:Userlogin" );
>>
>> I want that the Aplications Group only view and edit the Main Page,
>> Special:Blockip and the Special:Userlogin page.
>
>
> There's no support for anything like that. All pages are visible to
> everyone at all times, unless you set up the global read whitelist,
> which applies equally to those without read permssiion. If you are stuck
> there, you can't edit or perform any other actions than view of those
> whitelisted pages.
>
> MediaWiki is *not* designed for complex restricted read access. If you
> require this you should use software designed for it.
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
>
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