Hello, I have a question for SmallWiki 1 (since it is for my "production" wiki)... I would like to protect part of my SmallWiki site (my "intranet") such that people have to login to even view that part. The rest of the site (the public part) still needs to be visible to anonymous (but editable by admin). Is there a way to support this scenario ? From what I understood this is currently not possible (e.g. Roles are global). Am I correct ? Anybody made extensions to allow for this kind of scenario ?

Am 26.08.2005 um 11:12 schrieb Roel Wuyts: It's possible in the current implementation without extension. The key is to give permissions only to the structures, not to the users. When a user tries to access a structure, the permissions are taken from the structure. I think the following should work for you: - anonymous user: -- role 'anon' (no permissions) - registered user -- role 'editor' (no permissions) - root folder '/' -- role 'anon' (allow read) -- role 'editor (allow read and write) - folder '/private/' -- role 'anon' (no permissions) I'm not 100% sure if you can indeed "take away" permissions in the subfolder, you need to try that. We employ an even finer-grained scheme with write access for different users in different folders. For that, we give each folder a separate role with write permissions (the role is named after the folder). When a user should be allowed to write in that folder, it is assigned a role with the folder name (but again without permissions). - Bert -

Indeed, in every structure you are able to redefine (override) the roles: Just add a new role with the same name but different permissions to your structure and from there on in the tree those permissions will be used. As an example have a look at the following tree where the anonymous-role is initially defined in the root but redefined (overridden) in two of its sub folders: Root-Folder (anonymous: #( view edit )) Read/Write-Subwiki Readonly-Subwiki (anonymous: #( view ) Private-Subwiki (anonymous: #( ))