Wiki Access Control

General information about Wiki Access Control can be found at AccessControl

The default access control of the IAC Wiki

• Most of the IAC Wiki can only be viewed by users that are logged in.
• An exception is the Public Web.
• Please put topics that should be visible worldwide without a login into the Public Web.
• Wiki pages can only be edited by users that are logged in.

How to change the default access control rules

IMPORTANT: Use for the following Set statements inside a bullet list. Don't forget the three spaces before the asterisk!

Restrict viewing a topic

• To restrict viewing a topic only to your group members write the following on your Wiki page:

     * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.GroupnameGroup
  

  For example:

     * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.LinuxAdminGroup
  

• To restrict viewing to a group of people:

     * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.WikiUser1, Main.WikiUser2, Main.WikiUser3
  

• To make a topic visible (and editable) only for you:

     * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.YourWikiname
  

• If for some reason, you would like to make a topic in a closed Web visible without login, you can always overwrite the default access control rule (Set DENYTOPICVIEW = WikiGuest) with

     * Set DENYTOPICVIEW = 
  

Restrict editing a topic

• Use ALLOWTOPICCHANGE to restrict editing a topic, for example:

     * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.YourWikiname
  

     * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.LinuxAdminGroup
  

Hint

• You can hide the Set-statement with a HTML comment, for example:

  <!--
     * Set ALLOWTOPICVIEW = Main.LinuxAdminGroup
  -->