[Building Sakai] RWiki and public access

[Beth Kirschner]

If the public/read permission is checked, and the public view url is  
used, there should be no need for accounts. Perhaps there are firewall  
or other issues getting in between your users and the public wiki pages?

- Beth

On Mar 9, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Johns, Cheryl wrote:

> OK, so these folks would only need to have an account on the system  
> to access that page?  We've tried to give out those URLs, but they  
> don't seem to be totally world readable, so we were trying to figure  
> out how the security worked.
>
> Does the site need to have the .anon role in it with site.visit?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jonespm at gmail.com [mailto:jonespm at gmail.com] On Behalf Of  
> Matthew Jones
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:49 PM
> To: Johns, Cheryl
> Cc: Beth Kirschner; sakai-dev list
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] RWiki and public access
>
> Also on the info page after you give the read permission there are
> links in the feed section lower on the page. One of these is "public
> view". This is the link that you'd give out to people who want access
> to the page. You'd have to make sure that all pages linked off of this
> page also have the public read permission on them.
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Johns, Cheryl  
> <cheryl.johns at yale.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks Beth, but how do non-site members access that wiki?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Beth Kirschner [mailto:bkirschn at umich.edu]
>> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 3:12 PM
>> To: Johns, Cheryl
>> Cc: sakai-dev list
>> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] RWiki and public access
>>
>> Cheryl,
>>
>>    Go into the Wiki tool, select "Info" and look for the checkboxes
>> next to "Public", select the "Read" checkbox and "Save". You don't
>> have to worry about roles.
>>
>> - Beth
>
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