Per Page Passwords
I'd like to protect single pages with read/write passwords. So, pages would be protected without the need of creating an account and it would be easy for a group of people to add/remove themselves to lists or see content. This is a radical change to the traditional per-user authentication as it is common, but it would improve the usability for novice users.
This feature could be added to MoinMoin or to the hosting webserver. However, a change to the Webserver won't be that trivial as most webservers support only per-user authentication.
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- you know ACLs or ? -- ReimarBauer 2007-03-20 10:26:03
- I don't think that ACLs provide something like this; imho they are based upon users or anonymous access. However, as a quick hack I could create a user for the particular pages and set the cookie via an external cgi script
- You could also create an account (named equal or similar to the page(s) it is used for) and give the users the account name and password. The problem is you won't be easily able to differentiate who wrote what. And if you tell N people the same account/password data, it could happen that other people get it, too, and you can't easily change that account without telling N people again.
- This sounds reasonable. Whether you have a username+password tuple or only one password string, it is the same. It might be inconvenient for the users to type both, but from a technical perspective it is the same. (at least the same as if you know the beginning of the password). In addition, you could implement a page that sets the cookie so that users can login with a secret link... (benjamin)