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Trying to lockdown a wiki so that it can only be edited by certain users and figured I'd just set

     banned_users:
     - !user(myadmin)

in my config but it doesn't work.  I'm sure I must be doing something daft?

PS: the user is authenticated via 'httpauth', would that make a difference?

> That's not how `banned_users` works. Make yourself an admin:
>
>     adminuser:
>     - myadmin
>
> and disallow editing by non-admins:
>
>     locked_pages: '*'
>
> You can enable the `opendiscussion` and/or `anonok` plugins if you want
> unprivileged users, perhaps logging in with an OpenID, to be able to
> edit discussion pages (if enabled via `discussion`) or post comments.
>
> You can also relax the `locked_pages` setting if you want unprivileged
> users to be able to edit certain areas of the site.
>
> --[[smcv]]