po/todo: added bugreport about new page's type

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / todo / Moving_Pages.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/Moving_Pages.mdwn
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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Thanks again to [Joey](http://kitenet.net/~joey) for putting ikiwiki together.
 
 *[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)=*
 
+> Took a bit too long, but [[done]] now. --[[Joey]]
+
 ----
 
 The MediaWiki moving/renaming mechanism is pretty nice.  It's easy to get a list of pages that point to the current page.  When renaming a page it sticks a forwarding page in the original place.  The larger the size of the wiki the more important organization tools become.
@@ -205,3 +207,16 @@ Cases to consider:
   Update: Meh. It's certianly not ideal; if Bob tries to save the page he
   uploaded the attachment to, he'll get a message about it having been
   deleted/renamed, and he can try to figure out what to do... :-/
+* I don't know if this is a conflict, but it is an important case to consider;
+  you need to make sure that there are no security holes.  You dont want
+  someone to be able to rename something to <code>/etc/passwd</code>.
+  I think it would be enough that you cannot rename to a location outside
+  of srcdir, you cannot rename to a location that you wouldn't be able
+  to edit because it is locked, and you cannot rename to an existing page.
+
+  > Well, there are a few more cases (like not renaming to a pruned
+  > filename, and not renaming _from_ a file that is not a known source
+  > file or is locked), but yes, that's essentially it.
+  > 
+  > PS, the first thing I do to any
+  > web form is type /etc/passwd and ../../../../etc/passwd into it. ;-) --[[Joey]]