[Mediawiki-l] : Security, Login and Files in Images directory

Benjamin Lees emufarmers at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 20:57:07 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Pierre Labrecque
<pierre.labrecque at live.ca>wrote:

> Now : if I copy this address and send it to a user that IS NOT loggued on
> the wiki, he's able to open the file. He have direct access to the file,
> without login to the wiki.
>
This is MediaWiki's standard behavior.  If you want to restrict access to
files, you will need to use img_auth.php <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorization>.


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