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Trying to lockdown a wiki so that it can only be edited by certain users and figured I'd just set
banned_users:
- !user(myadmin)
in my config but it doesn't work. I'm sure I must be doing something daft?
PS: the user is authenticated via 'httpauth', would that make a difference?
> That's not how `banned_users` works. Make yourself an admin:
>
> adminuser:
> - myadmin
>
> and disallow editing by non-admins:
>
> locked_pages: '*'
>
> You can enable the `opendiscussion` and/or `anonok` plugins if you want
> unprivileged users, perhaps logging in with an OpenID, to be able to
> edit discussion pages (if enabled via `discussion`) or post comments.
>
> You can also relax the `locked_pages` setting if you want unprivileged
> users to be able to edit certain areas of the site.
>
> --[[smcv]]
>> That was my initial setup but it wasn't working and I got caught-up on the `banned_user` idea. It would seem I was getting tricked by some credential-caching-weirdness. Fired up another browser and `locked_pages` works perfectly. Thanks. -- fergus
>>> Browsers generally remember HTTP auth credentials until they're closed
>>> or get a 401 error, and don't generally have a way to "log out".
>>> As far as I'm aware, there's nothing that [[plugins/httpauth]] can
>>> do about that. --[[smcv]]