ikiwiki/doc/todo/Restrict_page_viewing.mdwn

I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.

I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 
2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.

* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks 
  to a plugin similar to goto.
* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff 
  (that I don't understand yet). 
* If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and 
  return this as a content.

Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki,
and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and 
much more maintainable htaccess file.

-- [[users/emptty]]

> While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
> and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
> [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]] 

>> I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand.
>> They would still be compiled the regular way;
>> I'll have another look at [[plugins/httpauth]] but I really like the openID whole idea.
>> --[[emptty]]

>>> How about
>>> [mod_auth_openid](http://trac.butterfat.net/public/mod_auth_openid), then?
>>> A plugin for ikiwiki to serve its own pages is far afield from ikiwiki's roots,
>>> as Joey pointed out, but might be a neat option to have anyway -- for unifying
>>> authentication across views and edits, for systems not otherwise running
>>> web servers, for systems with web servers you don't have access to, and
>>> doubtless for other purposes. Such a plugin would add quite a bit of flexibility,
>>> and in that sense (IMO, of course) it'd be in the spirit of ikiwiki. --[[schmonz]]