Extension:RestrictiveRights
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 Release status: beta |
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| Implementation | User rights | ||
| Description | Any user permission set to false is dominant. | ||
| Author(s) | Jim Hu | ||
| Last Version | 0.1 (5/17/2008) | ||
| MediaWiki | 1.12.0 | ||
| License | MIT | ||
| Download | see below | ||
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[edit] Usage
MW group permissions are inherited so that true always overrides false. This reverses that behavior, so that changing $wgGroupPermissions to false in LocalSettings always overrides true. This is useful when creating new groups with subsets of the permissions granted to the 'user' group. For example, consider a school with a wiki. The admin wants to let teachers create accounts for each other and for students, but doesn't want students to be able to create additional accounts. This can be done by creating a supergroup 'teacher' with more rights than regular users (students), but it requires remembering to set those permissions each time a teacher is created. With RestrictiveRights, you would do it like this:
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['user']['createaccount'] = true; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['student']['createaccount'] = false;
Here, the extra group is 'student', and student permission to create accounts is explicitly blocked in LocalSettings.php (and you have to remember to put new student accounts in group 'student' ). Which way is optimal just depends on what you want the default to be. Note that using RestrictiveRights does not prevent doing it the other way, but it allows you the choice.
Note that this will only apply to groups that are in the groups table in the MW schema, i.e. sysop, bureaucrat, and any custom groups.
[edit] Installation
Save code as RestrictiveRights.php. Adjust LocalSettings.php
require_once("$IP/extensions/RestrictiveRights.php");
[edit] Code
<?php /* The MIT License Copyright © <2006-2008> <Jim Hu> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Versions 0.11 */ # Not a valid entry point, skip unless MEDIAWIKI is defined if (!defined('MEDIAWIKI')) { echo <<<EOT To install this extension, put the following line in LocalSettings.php: require_once( "$IP/extensions/RestrictiveRights.php" ); EOT; exit( 1 ); } $wgExtensionCredits['other'][] = array( 'name' => 'RestrictiveRights', 'author' => 'Jim Hu', 'version' => '0.11', 'description' => 'Change rights so explicit false is dominant', 'url' => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RestrictiveRights' ); $wgHooks['UserGetRights'][] = 'efRestrictiveRights'; function efRestrictiveRights($user, &$rights){ global $wgGroupPermissions; #print_r($rights); foreach ($user->getGroups() as $group){ foreach ($wgGroupPermissions[$group] as $act => $permission){ if ($wgGroupPermissions[$group][$act] === false) unset ($rights[array_search($act, $rights)]); } } #print_r($rights); return true; }
