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Access control list
Generally speaking, an access control list (ACL) is a list of permissions attached to an object. The list specifies who or what is allowed to access the object and what operations are allowed to be performed on the object.
Access control lists in SMW+
Until version 1.4.3 access control lists in SMW+ are implemented by the PermissionACL extension. For more information, see the PermissionACL Web site.
In SMW+, access control lists are used to restrict access to specific namespaces, pages, and categories based on user group or user name. This provides a more fine grained security model than the user rights management of MediaWiki, which uses the two-dimensional array $wgGroupPermissions.
Access control lists in SMW+ are controlled by rules that can be created on the special page Special:ACL.
HaloACL
We introduced with SMW+ 1.4.5 a new access control list extension called Help:HaloAccessControlList. The HaloACL is a user rights management extension both for MediaWiki and Semantic MediaWiki, based on Access Control Lists (ACL). During the design phase we have leveraged existing extensions, to identify security holes in those MW extensions and found ways to patch them. As a result the existing features of MediaWiki for User Rights Management were extended to achieve the required security.
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