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 I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.
 
 I'd like to have some pages of my wiki to be only viewable by some users.
 

-I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.
+I could use htaccess for that, but it would force the users to have 
+2 authentication mecanisms, so I'd prefer to use openID for that too.

 
 

-* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks to a plugin similar to goto.
-* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff (that I don't understand yet). If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
-* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and return this as a content.
+* I'm thinking of adding a "show" parameter to the cgi script, thanks 
+  to a plugin similar to goto.
+* When called, it would check the credential using the session stuff 
+  (that I don't understand yet). 
+* If not enough, it would serve a 403 error of course.
+* If enough, it would read the file locally on the server side and 
+  return this as a content.

 
 

-Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki, and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and much more maintainable htaccess file.
+Then, I'd have to generate the private page the regular way with ikiwiki,
+and prevent apache from serving them with an appropriate and 
+much more maintainable htaccess file.

 
 -- [[users/emptty]]
 
 > While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
 > and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
 > [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]] 
 
 -- [[users/emptty]]
 
 > While I'm sure a plugin could do this, it adds so much scalability cost
 > and is so counter to ikiwiki's design.. Have you considered using the
 > [[plugins/httpauth]] plugin to unify around htaccess auth? --[[Joey]] 

+
+>> I'm not speaking of rendering the pages on demand, but to serve them on demand.
+>> They would still be compiled the regular way;
+>> I'll have another look at [[plugins/httpauth]] but I really like the openID whole idea.
+>> --[[emptty]]
+
+>>> How about
+>>> [mod_auth_openid](http://trac.butterfat.net/public/mod_auth_openid), then?
+>>> A plugin for ikiwiki to serve its own pages is far afield from ikiwiki's roots,
+>>> as Joey pointed out, but might be a neat option to have anyway -- for unifying
+>>> authentication across views and edits, for systems not otherwise running
+>>> web servers, for systems with web servers you don't have access to, and
+>>> doubtless for other purposes. Such a plugin would add quite a bit of flexibility,
+>>> and in that sense (IMO, of course) it'd be in the spirit of ikiwiki. --[[schmonz]]
+
+>>>> Yes, I think this could probably be used in combination with ikiwiki's
+>>>> httpauth and openid plugins. --[[Joey]] 
+
+>>>>> If you use the httpauth and the cgiauthurl method, you can restrict a path 
+>>>>> like /private/* to be accessible only under the authenticated request uri.
+
+>>>>>> Note that if editing is enabled, then you should set the restriction in
+>>>>>> [[plugins/lockedit]]'s locked_pages too
+>>>>>> or they may be able to view pages by editing the page= value in the editor's
+>>>>>> query string. --[mjr](http://mjr.towers.org.uk/)