[Pmwiki-users] Easily Hackable?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

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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