Janne Jalkanen wrote:
It shouldn't require an expert Java/JSPWiki programmer to tackle what
to my way of thinking is a very common implementation scenario. This
should be a configuration/installation issue, not a coding one.
No. It is not a common scenario for a wiki. For *two* wikis perhaps,
but not for a single one...
Yes, that was always my fallback solution. Because the ISP doesn't
charge extra for putting up two wikis, having one public and one
secure (private, members only) certainly makes sense, with InterWiki
links between (well, at least in one direction).
If you think about it this way: page-level security is exactly what it
means - *page* -level security. It's not *pageset* level security
(which was never in the spec in the first place). If you have 2000
pages, you need to have 2000 ACL's as well, and therefore it suits fine
in the cases where default is open, and you just close some pages - or
the default is closed, and you open some pages. But beyond that, it
gets awfully complicated, and you really should consider deploying two
wikis instead of one, if your security needs that.
Yes, understood. The PITA aspect is something I neither have time nor
patience for. I just figured that if the scenario was such that the
vast majority of pages were private and only a small number public
there might be a way to special-case those public pages, like grant
public access to only a set of pages that show up in a list somewhere,
that list maintainable by admins. So if there's 2000 pages they're
all handled by the default higher-security set in jspwiki.jaas, with
the six or seven pages manually set as public.
Murray
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