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Hi

I have looked around the forum and can't find an answer to this so I hope someone can help.

I want to run a blog for therapeutic purposes where individual blogs can be accessible by any administrator and just one other person. There would be multiple pages like this. So the administrator would be able to have several separate blog-style conversations going, each with one individual.

Further, because the therapeutic/coaching conversation must be confidential, the blogs must be reliably private. That is, no-one should have access to any particular conversation other than the administrator and the individual concerned. There should be no backdoors into the conversations (e.g. via hacking or via search engine logging). Ideally I suppose they would be encrypted.

Finally notification of any new reply to a conversation would be emailed to the administrator and the other person in the conversation.

I don't know if this is possible in Serendipity, being new to the product. It is possible to password-protect pages in Wordpress - perhaps there is something similar in s9y?

I hope someone can advise - thanks for your time

I did find these old posts on a similar subject which are a couple of years old:

http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=41 ... ht=privacy
http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=23 ... ht=privacy


Phil Swallow

Hi!

Serendipity supports password-protected entries using the event plugin "Extended porperties of entries".

There you can also set if an entry can be read by specific registered users on the blog only.

On top of that, you can assign read/write privileges on per-category basis, by gooing to the category maintaining admin section, going to edit a category and then choose 'read/write' authorgroups.


This will require that the individuals your admin talks to must be authenticated serendipity users with their own accounts, and their own usergroup memberships.

Postings protected like these cannot be bypassed on the frontend. But if someone gains access to your MySQL database or phpMyAdmin, he could of course read that - postings are not encrypted.

You might want to search this forum for "privileges" instead; "privacy" is seldomly used here, I think. Hope my answer already helped you out a bit.

Best regards,
Garvin

What a response time - fantastic! Thanks I'll explore the areas you suggest and will revert if I have any more questions.

Many thanks

Phil