[pmwiki-users] "roles" or "authorization groups" (was password questions)

Neil Herber nospam at eton.ca
Sun Jan 29 13:47:45 CST 2006


At 2006-01-27  11:55 PM -0500, Waylan Limberg is rumored to have said:
>I think you may be on to something here. User groups or wiki groups?
>Half the time I can't tell what people are talking about. If we can
>keep things down to only one kind of group, that would help.

I think the term "groups" used for authorization comes from Apache 
password groups. As in:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "XYZ_Project"
AuthUserFile pathto/.htpasswd
AuthGroupFile pathto/.htgroup
Require group xyz

But in the context of PmWiki, I would prefer to use "roles". Just not 
sure what the docs would look like explaining how to use .htgroup, 
should that ever be possible.

The other alternative would be to rigorously use "authorization 
group" or "wiki group" where appropriate.


Neil

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