X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/08e9c427a9be88b43866cff1aa1c1ed6381a93f5..f621761b0cf761904e875bc0d2f84a9d38e47ddc:/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn index dea933d53..e9fb2717f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn @@ -20,3 +20,52 @@ something, that I think is very valuable. >>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access >>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]] + +Also see [[!debbug 443346]]. + +> Just a few quick thoughts about this: +> +>* I'm only thinking about write ACLs. As Joey noted, read ACLs need to be done in the web server. +>* ACLs are going to be really hard for people with direct access to the revision control system. +> Which means that we really only need to define ACLs for web access. +>* ACLs for web access can then be defined by the web master. These might not need to be +> defined in the wiki pages (although they could be). +>* Given the previous two points, can't this be done with the `match_user()` +> function defined by the [[plugins/attachment]] plugin (see the [[ikiwiki/pagespec/attachment]] pagespec info) +> and the [[plugins/lockedit]] plugin? +> +> For example, add the following to your config file: +> +> locked_pages => '!(user(john) and */Discussion) and *', +> +> would lock all pages unless you're john and editing a Discussion page. +> It's a thought anyway :-). -- [[Will]] + +>> Yes, writing per-user commit ACLs has become somewhat easier with recent +>> features. Breaking `match_user` out of attachment, and making the +>> lockedit plugin pass`user` and `ip` params when it calls `pagespec_match` +>> would be sufficient. And [[done]], configurable via +>> [[plugin/lockedit]]'s `locked_pages`. --[[Joey]] + +I am considering giving this a try, implementing it as a module. +Here is how I see it: + + * a new preprocessor directive allows to define ACL entries providing permissions + for a given (user, page, operation), as in: + +
+ \[[!acl user=joe page=*.png allow=upload]] + \[[!acl user=bob page=/blog/bob/* allow=*]] + \[[!acl user=* page=/blog/bob/* deny=*]] + \[[!acl user=http://jeremie.koenig.myopenid.com/ page=/todo/* deny=create + reason="spends his time writing todo items instead of source code"]] ++ + Each would expand to a description of the resulting rule. + + * a configurable page of the wiki would be used as an ACL list. + Possibly could refer to other ACL pages, as in: + +
+ \[[!acl user=* page=/subsite/* acl=/subsite/acl.mdwn]] +