Thanks for the explanation - it makes perfect sense. James
ps Perhaps this could be made explicit on the PmWiki/AuthUser webpage. pps I also want every editor to be allowed to upload. Is there any way of making the edit and upload permissions identical (without going through group by group again). So to have a universal declaration (say in local/config.php) which has the effect of copying the edit array to the upload array. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Randy Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, permissions override higher levels (that is, page overrides group which > overrides site). Permissions are not additive. So if you want members of > @editors and @friends to have edit permission, you have to set the permission > to @editors @friends (separated by a space). This allows you, for example, to > grant the right to @editors to edit any group **except** the > ForAuthorizedFriendsOnly group, whose permissions you would set simply to > @authorizedfriends. If permissions were additive, that would be impossible. > > Randy > > > On May 1, 2011, at 4:08 PM, James M wrote: > >> Does one really >> need to go through each group and put @editors (as well as @friends >> etc) in the edit field? > > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
