On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 09:21, Ludovic Dubost <[email protected]> wrote:

> -1 because allowing delete by default open as hole to guest and
> crawlers in particular.
> Very dangerous. We had the issue with "undelete" which does not follow
> the same rule.
>
> I'm +1 for changing undelete to forbidden by default
>
> As for admin the only reason was to be able to fill the wiki in the
> beginning. It's true that it's a hole too.
> I'm +1 for changing admin to forbidden by default as our default wiki
> has the right settings.
>
> It would be great though to have a better solution to fill the wiki
> than using superadmin.
>

If we found a good way to have null be the superadmin when the wiki need it
so, I am +1.
But we really need to be sure this solution is safe and could not be
triggered by trickery.


>
> Ludovic
>
> 2012/2/23 Andreas Jonsson <[email protected]>:
> > -1
> >
> > As I see it, it is the fact that admin right is allowed by default that
> > is an irregularity.  Currently, the initial import relies on these
> > default admin rights, and it is expected that the imported contents
> > configure the admin right appropriately.
> >
> > In a standard wiki-setting, I would expect that "delete", "admin", and
> > "programming" are denied to most users and it seems to me natural that
> > the default is "deny" for these.  So if this is a matter of consistency,
> > I would rather see a new mechanism (e.g., a special "uninitialized"
> > state of the wiki) to make it possible to change the default to "deny"
> > also for admin rights.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Andreas
> >
> > 2012-02-23 16:02, Thomas Mortagne skrev:
> >> Right now on an empty wiki you have all the rights except "delete"
> >> (and register).
> >>
> >> So this means that you have "admin" right but you don't have "delete"
> rights...
> >>
> >> This does not make much sense and I anyway I don't see why delete has
> >> this special rule.
> >>
> >> Any idea ?
> >>
> >> Here is my +1 to remove the special handling of "delete" default right.
> >>
> >
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