[pmwiki-users] adding passwords to a page without breaking old ones

[Sandy]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

PITS added.

> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:01:02AM -0500, Sandy wrote:
>> If I remember correctly, if you add a password to a page, that new 
>> password over-rides the ones set by group and config.php. As in, only 
>> the new one will have access to the page.
>
> We already have a way to get access to the site-wide (config.php)
> passwords, by using the '@_site_*' groups.  Thus, to give access
> to Frank plus everyone who has sitewide edit permissions, one should
> be able to do
> 
>     id:Frank @_site_edit
> 
> We don't have an equivalent mechanism for getting access to group
> authorizations, but perhaps it wouldn't be too hard to add 
> something like "@_group_*" permissions to be able to grab things
> from a group.

So to give someone access I'd have to type:
id:Frank @_site_edit @_group_edit
That's assuming I haven't given anyone else permission as well.

> Before adding too many more specifiers onto the
> existing system, I'm hoping to come up with a cleaner overall
> design.  And being able to control permissions of all pages
> from a single location (e.g. config.php, Site.AuthUser, or a
> similar wiki page) is still on my roadmap.

Looking forward to it. It will be an interesting set of discussions. So 
many different real and theoretical uses.

Sandy