1 Trying to lockdown a wiki so that it can only be edited by certain users and figured I'd just set
6 in my config but it doesn't work. I'm sure I must be doing something daft?
8 PS: the user is authenticated via 'httpauth', would that make a difference?
10 > That's not how `banned_users` works. Make yourself an admin:
15 > and disallow editing by non-admins:
19 > You can enable the `opendiscussion` and/or `anonok` plugins if you want
20 > unprivileged users, perhaps logging in with an OpenID, to be able to
21 > edit discussion pages (if enabled via `discussion`) or post comments.
23 > You can also relax the `locked_pages` setting if you want unprivileged
24 > users to be able to edit certain areas of the site.
28 >> 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
30 >>> Browsers generally remember HTTP auth credentials until they're closed
31 >>> or get a 401 error, and don't generally have a way to "log out".
32 >>> As far as I'm aware, there's nothing that [[plugins/httpauth]] can
33 >>> do about that. --[[smcv]]