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Thoughts on ACLs

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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/ 2008-09-11 07:53:07 -04:00 committed by Joey Hess
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@ -23,6 +23,24 @@ something, that I think is very valuable.
Also see [[!debbug 443346]].
> Just a few quick thoughts about this:
>
>* I'm only thinking about write ACLs. As Joey noted, read ACLs need to be done in the web server.
>* ACLs are going to be really hard for people with direct access to the revision control system.
> Which means that we really only need to define ACLs for web access.
>* ACLs for web access can then be defined by the web master. These might not need to be
> defined in the wiki pages (although they could be).
>* Given the previous two points, can't this be done with the `match_user()`
> function defined by the [[plugins/attachment]] plugin (see the [[ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]] pagespec info)
> and the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin (see [[page_locking]])?
>
> For example, add the following to your config file:
>
> locked_pages => '!(user(john) and */Discussion) and *',
>
> would lock all pages unless you're john and editing a Discussion page.
> It's a thought anyway :-). -- [[Will]]
I am considering giving this a try, implementing it as a module.
Here is how I see it: