[Mediawiki-l] MediWiki ACL

Mon Dec 19 03:07:52 UTC 2005

Halah Hassan wrote:
> I need some help in setting up access control list for users. What i am
> trying to implement is a bit more than what MediaWiki 1.5.3 supports.
> 
> Our company has a number of different business units, each of which wants to
> have its own restricted area on the wiki that is only accessible by the
> users in that specific business unit.

This is not supported. If you really require this functionality in this way, you
should not use MediaWiki, which is designed for open access. We cannot support
or guarantee the security of third-party patches.

Multiple read restrictions within the wiki are *not* supported by MediaWiki, and
unsupported hacks are likely to have security holes. If you really require that
kind of security you should use software which is designed for it.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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