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Token Access
New in Tiki5, and improved in Tiki9Allow to access the content with superior rights with the presentation of a token. The primary use of this authentication method is to grant temporary access to content to an external service. Ex.: an external service needs to crawl your content to make a report.
It is also possible to combine with Tell a friend. This is good if you want to give a one time access to a page or a file, without creating a username/password and setting the group and permissions.
This is especially useful if you want to share a large file without having to send via e-mail.
Starting in Tiki9, there is an admin panel at: "Admin home > Security > Tokens" (tiki-admin.php?page=security&cookietab=5):
Moreover, Tiki9 brings an interface to manage tokens at (tiki-admin_tokens.php). For instance, if you have shared permissions to view some page with one friend, you would have one token generated for your page, which can be listed with this interface:
If you want to create new tokens by hand, you can do that with the tab "Add new token".
One use case for this manual setting of token access is to manage Batch actions, that can be run based on cron jobs set on external servers. See more information in Batch
Using a token
A token looks like this
http://demo.tiki.org/trunk/tiki-index.php?TOKEN=937d83bc9dc6ede58d247df505011t43
Token | TokenAccess | Tokens | Security Token
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