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

[Gregory Szorc]

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.



If only the UserCan hook was called more and more.  I would love a global
variable like $wgInsanePermissions that, when activated, would have Article
and Title constructors, etc call UserCan for ($wgUser).