[Pmwiki-users] Easily Hackable?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud
Sat Apr 3 13:46:48 CST 2004
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:58:08PM -0700, H. Fox wrote:
>
> This almost sounds like group support, which brings a question to mind:
> If htaccess capability were added to pmwiki, could htgroup support be
> added also, perhaps not right away, but eventually? From the Apache manual:
>
> The format of the group file is exceedingly simple.
> A group name appears first on a line, followed by a
> colon, and then a list of the members of the group,
> separated by spaces. For example:
> authors: rich daniel allan
> [...]
> A page or WikiGroup might then be able to have permissions by UserGroup
> (such as "authors" above) as well as by individual author.
Sure, it'd be no problem to do this. But it's still an issue of
"how to specify authorization" -- i.e., how should we specify
which names/groups are able to perform which operations on which
pages?
> Not necessarily.
> With the .htaccess method I posted a few days ago, authorship can be forced.
> <Adds a single line to config.php. Grins because it was so easy.>
Indeed, this is another excellent point. :-)
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