Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?

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Author: Chris Dennis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wiki broken?
On 05/11/12 21:31, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 05/11/12 15:46, Chris Dennis wrote:
>>
>> Yes. Adam had to shut down most access to the wiki because of all the
>> spam. And my very brief reading of the MoinMoin documentation
>> suggests that the system wasn't designed to be secure: it's open to
>> either everyone or no-one (except for 'superusers'). If I'm wrong
>> about that, please let me know.
> you can actually do quite a lot of access control stuff with moin
> http://hants.lug.org.uk/wiki/HelpOnAccessControlLists
> check out the various examples of ways you can configure a site for
> different scenarios, basically you end up creating pages with bulleted
> lists of people to make groups:
> http://hants.lug.org.uk/wiki/HelpOnGroups
> like this one but you can create more
> http://hants.lug.org.uk/wiki/AdminGroup
> then use the group names (that is their wiki page names) in ACLs


Aha! Thanks for those hints, Alan. I now understand a bit more about
MoinMoin.

So, this is the plan. I've re-enabled new accounts, which means that
anyone can create an account. BUT, only users who are members of the
'editors' group can change things. If you want to be an editor, create
an account, and let me know your user name by sending an email to
webmaster@???.

Hopefully that will allow people to update the wiki, but keep the
spammers out.

cheers

Chris

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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK


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