1 How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
2 to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
3 something, that I think is very valuable.
5 > ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
6 > can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
7 > could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
8 > overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
9 > I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]
11 >> I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page.
12 >> It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something,
13 >> and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something?
16 >>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
17 >>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
18 >>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
19 >>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --[[Joey]]
21 >>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
22 >>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]
24 Also see [[!debbug 443346]].
26 > Just a few quick thoughts about this:
28 >* I'm only thinking about write ACLs. As Joey noted, read ACLs need to be done in the web server.
29 >* ACLs are going to be really hard for people with direct access to the revision control system.
30 > Which means that we really only need to define ACLs for web access.
31 >* ACLs for web access can then be defined by the web master. These might not need to be
32 > defined in the wiki pages (although they could be).
33 >* Given the previous two points, can't this be done with the `match_user()`
34 > function defined by the [[plugins/attachment]] plugin (see the [[ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]] pagespec info)
35 > and the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin (see [[page_locking]])?
37 > For example, add the following to your config file:
39 > locked_pages => '!(user(john) and */Discussion) and *',
41 > would lock all pages unless you're john and editing a Discussion page.
42 > It's a thought anyway :-). -- [[Will]]
44 >> Yes, writing per-user commit ACLs has become somewhat easier with recent
45 >> features. Breaking `match_user` out of attachment, and making the
46 >> lockedit plugin pass`user` and `ip` params when it calls `pagespec_match`
47 >> would be sufficient. --[[Joey]]
49 I am considering giving this a try, implementing it as a module.
52 * a new preprocessor directive allows to define ACL entries providing permissions
53 for a given (user, page, operation), as in:
56 \[[!acl user=joe page=*.png allow=upload]]
57 \[[!acl user=bob page=/blog/bob/* allow=*]]
58 \[[!acl user=* page=/blog/bob/* deny=*]]
59 \[[!acl user=http://jeremie.koenig.myopenid.com/ page=/todo/* deny=create
60 reason="spends his time writing todo items instead of source code"]]
63 Each would expand to a description of the resulting rule.
65 * a configurable page of the wiki would be used as an ACL list.
66 Possibly could refer to other ACL pages, as in:
69 \[[!acl user=* page=/subsite/* acl=/subsite/acl.mdwn]]