[pmwiki-users] Re: Unwanted creation of Wiki-Group

[Al Kabaila]

Patrick,
On Saturday 07 May 2005 01:30, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 08:45:32PM +1000, Al Kabaila wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >

As always, I am indebted to Patrick not only for his expertise and the ability 
to explain in detail, but also for his patience.  I also want to thank Neil 
Herber and Radu Lukian for their prompt contributions.  I can see that both 
solutions 1 and 2 are simple to implement and that 1 would require little 
additional work than typing a few lines of code into   the   
.../local/config.php file.

I looked at the Cookbook and to my dismay noticed that on an earlier occasion 
it was I who pasted some stuff from Pm email on this list to the cookbook...  
I had totally forgotten that.  Such memory lapses for me are, alas, too 
frequent...  I do apologise for it.

Thanks you all again,

Al.

> > I recall some discussion in these pages of limiting the creation of
> > WikiGroups, creation which happens inadvertently.  Unfortunately, I can
> > not recall if the question was resolved.
> >
> > Such group creation has happened on our site more frequently than I like.
> > Usually someone mistypes the name of the Group in the full name of a page
> > and proceeds to create the WikiGroup.
> >
> > Because of this, I would like to restrict the creation of wiki groups by
> > a password or some other means.  Is it possible and if so, how?
>
> Solution 1:  assuming all of your wikigroups have RecentChanges pages...
>
>     $rc = FmtPageName('$Group.RecentChanges', $pagename)
>     if (!PageExists($rc))
>       $DefaultPasswords['edit'] = $DefaultPasswords['admin'];
>
> causes creation of a new page to require either an existing
> RecentChanges page for the group or the administrator password.
>
> Solution 2:  Block all edits with a site-wide edit password, then
>     use "nopass" for the edit password in the GroupAttributes page
>     of any groups in which you wish to allow editing and creation of
>     new pages.
>
> Solution 3:  See Cookbook/LimitWikiGroups.
>
> There's other ways to do it, but these are the ones I can think
> of at the moment.  I like solution #1 because it means an administrator
> can create a new group simply by creating a new page in the group,
> while the others require setting up another file first.
>
> Pm

-- 
Algis Kabaila
http://www.pcug.org.au/~akabaila