ikiwiki/ todo/ ACL

How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is something, that I think is very valuable.

ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --Joey

I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page. It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something, and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something? --Ethan

Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki, unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --Joey

Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --Ethan