Hi, Is it safe to allow write access to pmwiki groups to users who might try to break it or break in?
I've enjoyed using pmwiki for several years for my home page, for members of my research groups and to present course material to my classes. See http://wrfranklin.org/ Some students like what they see so much that they've asked to use a pmwiki group for their term project. Indeed, I'd like all my students to post their progress reports on it. However, some of these students might try to test the system's limits. Potentially hostile people with write access to single pages or entire groups is a stronger threat than potentially hostile people with only read access. Am I opening myself or our web server to risks? Is there a difference between giving the students access to single pages vs to an entire group? I haven't enabled separate farms, and would rather not have the hassle. However, is that worth it? I'm thinking of not allowing upload access; students can link to images on their personal web directories. Thanks. /W. Randolph Franklin P.s. my spell checker just suggested replacing 'pmwiki' with 'homework' ?! _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
