[Mediawiki-l] Restricting access to a closed user group - How secure?

[Platonides]

Bjorn Kassoe Andersen wrote:
> Does anyone know if the setups described here
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access#Simple_private_wiki
> provide a relatively secure solution that is not to easy to hack?
>  
> I would like to use mediawiki in closed user group (in which all users will
> be having full access to all parts of the wiki). 
>  
> The solution is intended for internal discussions and preparation of working
> papers in a council on IT security issues. This means that some kinds of
> people would probably find it funny to hack us ... so even though I like
> Mediawiki, I don't want to make us a very easy target.
>  
> Regards
> kassoe

It's the most secure mediawiki setup. It is also used on several wikis
of the Wikimedia Foundation. Nonetheless, as you already know, perfect
security doesn't exist.