[Moin-user] How to make pages uneditable? (by anyone)

[Gisbert Amm]

Instead of making pages unwritable, a possible solution for your problem is
to restore the accidently changed pages. Your users won't make the same
mistake twice, will they?

:-)

To restore a certain page, click on the 'info' icon in the upper right
corner (the blue one with the 'i' on it) hit the link 'detailed information'
(or so) and choose the version you want to go back to.

Kind regards,
Gisbert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitchell Marks [mailto:mitchell at cuip.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 9:32 PM
> To: MoinMoin Users
> Subject: [Moin-user] How to make pages uneditable? (by anyone)
> 
> 
> red hat 7.2
> python 2.2.2
> apache 1.3.27, runs as apache:apache
> moin moin 1.159
> 
> We have a very new MoinMoin Wiki (at 
> http://cwd.uchicago.edu/wiki/), and 
> I'm also quite new to handling such a system, so I hope 
> you'll be tolerant 
> of newbie questions.
> 
> I want to lock down some pages so they can't be edited.  It's 
> not mischief, 
> it's accident and misunderstanding. (Members of our test 
> group have signed 
> up at UserPreferences, then immediately press Edit to get 
> started making 
> pages -- and wipe out the UserPreferences form.)
> 
> I came across a FAQ where the answer to "How do I make 
> immutable pages?" 
> was "Just set the permissions bits."  That doesn't seem to be 
> working for 
> me.  I remove write permissions, and for that matter change 
> the ownership 
> to either root or some other user; then go to the web and 
> edit it in the 
> Wiki.  The ownership comes back to apache:apache and the 
> write bits are on --
> 
> >[1:09pm] root at cwd:text 243# chown mitchell: TestImmutablePage
> >[1:22pm] root at cwd:text 244# chmod ugo-w TestImmutablePage
> >[1:22pm] root at cwd:text 245# ls -l TestImmutablePage
> >-r--r--r--    1 mitchell mitchell      118 Apr  4 13:09 
> TestImmutablePage
> ((here I edited it on the web))
> >[1:22pm] root at cwd:text 246# ls -l TestImmutablePage
> >-rw-rw-rw-    1 apache   apache        129 Apr  4 13:23 
> TestImmutablePage
> 
> The text directory has this ownership and permissions:
> >[1:23pm] root at cwd:text 247# ls -ld .
> >drwxrwxr-x    2 apache   apache       4096 Apr  4 13:23 ./
> 
> If I made the directory unwritable, wouldn't that interfere 
> with normal 
> saving of all the other pages?  Is there another place where 
> pages can be 
> kept, and participate in the WikiName linking, but the 
> directory can be 
> unwritable or belong to someone other than apache?
> 
> Thanks much for what I hope will be your useful suggestions!
> 
>    -- Mitch Marks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Mitchell Marks
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