X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/df57ba677064f7bba09f0689738dcafdb817917c..82197bd0eaa216b841caace38c976acc7f6ad3fa:/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn index fe6c44192..e9fb2717f 100644 --- a/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/ACL.mdwn @@ -21,6 +21,32 @@ 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: @@ -28,10 +54,10 @@ Here is how I see it: 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
+    \[[!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"]]
     
@@ -41,5 +67,5 @@ Here is how I see it: Possibly could refer to other ACL pages, as in:
-    \[[acl user=* page=/subsite/* acl=/subsite/acl.mdwn]]
+    \[[!acl user=* page=/subsite/* acl=/subsite/acl.mdwn]]