On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, vijayaraghavan seshan < [email protected]> wrote:
> Recently installed mediawiki in GNU/Linux box. We have a requirement > that mediwiki to be accessed through secure login. Purpose is to give > access for particular teams and not for all. Any suggestions will be > very much appreciated. > Your requirement is very vague. If you are talking of authentication, LDAP[1] / CAS[2] authentication extensions can help. If its about setting up a private wiki read[3]. If you want part of wiki to be non-editable read $wgNamespaceProtection[4]. You can try extensions[5][6] to enforce access controls for reading at your own risk for 2 reasons. 1 - As the disclaimer says Mediawiki is not built partial page access restrictions(for reading), you might be better off choosing a proper CMS for that 2. These extensions have not yet been certified on 1.19 or even 1.18 for that matter, so you will have to break your head if it doesn't work. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LDAP_Authentication [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CASAuthentication [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access [4] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgNamespaceProtection [5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lockdown [6] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleSecurity -- Regards Srikanth.L _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
