Properties and security

Options

The owner of the page, and the web administrator have access to a number of options which other users with modify access do not. These options affect the basic behaviour of the page.

Locking a page
The page owner can lock a page so that only they can have access at any level. This can be used if the owner wants to update important information and wants to disable access temporarily.

Making a page sticky
When a new page is created it inherits the access control lists of the page the edit was initiated from. If this page was sticky then all of the properties are inherited, including the page's author.

This can be used to control access to a 'tree' of pages, though it should be noted that there are ways round sticky pages. For example the target can be created from another non-sticky page. However this option is provided more for convenience than security.

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