[Mediawiki-l] Permission to only access certain articles for users?

[Sy Ali]

On 7/7/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/07/06, Markus Fischer <markus at fischer.name> wrote:
> > Is there *some* way implemented to restrict access for groups of users
> > to documentes? Like only accessing documents in a certain namespace or
> > from within a certain category?
>
> Run now and install a proper document management system. And my
> strongest advice is to IGNORE any post pointing you at any third party
> hack to the software which promises to add this; as far as I know,
> *all* such hacks presently don't patch enough to completely block
> access to restricted content.

I second that.  The only proper way for me has been to maintain a
small wiki farm of multiple installations, where the different
installations have different users, don't allow signup and block
anonymous views.

For actual security, we have PGP-encrypted blocks of text.  Yeah, not
exactly wiki.. but useful for managing certain docs in an "easy
enough" way.

I still theorize some kind of wacky apache security measure which has
security restrictions overtop of sub-items.  Something like:

[[normal]]
[[normal/protected]]

Pipe dream, I know.  =)