[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[John Van Ostrand]

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM Chris Frey <cdfrey at foursquare.net> wrote:

> One thing I've found lacking, which closed-source wikis like Confluence
> have, is finer grained permissions over pages.  Mediawiki at least
> has users and somewhat rough global permissions, but certainly
> nothing robust.  The open source wikis are built for sharing information.
>
> How's Dokuwiki?
>

My needs are minimal. Speed was one need. Some feeling of currency and
longevity for the software and similarity to Twiki.  I'm the only user for
the near future.

It allows ACLs of None, Read, Edit, Create, Upload, and Delete with latter
ones having all the permissions of the previous. It can be applied on
individual pages, groups of pages, or a wiki section, but not to
subsections of pages.  It allows namespaces, arbitrary strings that begin a
page name. Documentation suggests user:%USER%* and group:%GROUP%* giving
each user and group their own namespace and permissions to work with them.

On the file system it's all owned by the web server, of course. I notice it
has read permissions for everyone. I could probably fix that with a umask
somehow. But then I'm the only one with shell access.

-- 
John Van Ostrand
At large on sabbatical
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