Thread:Project:Support desk/Group permissions have no effect/reply (4)

There's no generic privledge for special page reading. At best you can revoke read rights in general, and then use an extension to re-add the pages you are ok with (e.g. Things like $wgWhitelistRead. However mediawiki is not built for partial read restrictions, and there's usually ways around that if you're not careful (particularly if you let people edit).