Manual talk:Preventing access

How come, when I add the "$wgWhitelistRead =" as instructed, an anonymous use can still view the contents of pages beyond main/login/help? I copied/pasted the line from this page to avoid the possibility of a typo. - Gregg S.

wgWhitelistRead seems to have no effect in 1.4beta1. From what I can tell, this is due to the default settings of the groupRights hash located in includes/User.php, in the isAllowed function, line 625. Changing line from 'read'         => '*', to 'read'         => 'user', seems to fix the problem. Joel Franusic 209.129.63.92 22:29, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I'm looking at the FAQ and see the following entry

Question: I want to be tyrannical (just registered users can edit) on the page itself, but still allow general access to Discuss this page/Post a comment. Can this be done? Answer: No. This feature was requested for http://wikimediafoundation.org, but has not yet been implemented.

However, it appears that this feature has infact been implemented for wikimediafoundation. Is this feature in the 1.3.9 code base? If so, how does one activate this feature?

Thanks! Damien Heiser