[MKDoc-dev] No authentication on www.*?

Chris Croome chris at webarchitects.co.uk
Mon Jan 24 00:49:50 GMT 2005


Hi

On Sun 23-Jan-2005 at 02:15:45PM -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
> Hello all.  I'm working on the user-group project and I want to
> make sure I'm headed down the right path.  As far as I can tell in
> MKDoc 1.6 logged-in users only use the users.* base URL and never
> the www.* base URL.  I draw this conclusion from the fact that the
> login link on www.* points to users.* and that the authentication
> module (MKDoc::Handler::Authentication) only runs on users.*.

Yes, this is correct, it's only with 1.8 that both anon access and
authenticated access uses the same doman name / port.

> If I'm right then I'll need to make sure that documents assigned
> to groups can only be accessed via users.* and then only by users
> in the right group.  Does that make sense?

Um, yes I guess, if the documents are supposed to only be accessible
to people in these groups -- you are talking about write and / or
read access?

Chris

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