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Require username and passwordSubmitted by aadkins on Tue, 04/22/2008 - 8:02am.Is there a way to require a username and password to access the Mediwiki Jumpbox? It is a registered install and I have shell access. Thanks, |
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Require username and password
That's what I needed, thanks.
Require username and password
There are a couple of ways you can do this, it depends on how specifically you expect it to work.
You can require a username/password at the webserver level thus completely preventing any access to the mediawiki application without authenticating. To accomplish this you would have to configure apache to do basic auth. The apache configuration files are in /etc/apache2, specifically look at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.
The other approach is at the MediaWiki level. You can specify all sorts of different access rules within MediaWiki itself ... actually, there are too many options ... here's a link explosion on the topic:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:User_rights_management
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:%24wgGroupPermissions
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access
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