[opencms-dev] Authorizing intranet users as guests possible?

[Stephan Hartmann]

Hi Klaus,

you have to add your users not as normal users but as webusers. webusers do 
not have access to the workplace.
to do this you may use the cmsshell with the command

> addWebUser name password group description flags

set flags to 0 for enabled.

you may also modify your existing users directly through your mysql frontend.
set in table CMS_USERS their USER_TYPE to 1.

bye,
stephan

Am Dienstag, 10. September 2002 12:05 schrieben Sie:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm using OpenCMS 4.7 on W2K with Tomcat 4 standalone to set up an intranet
> at the Fachhochschule (our university). I would like  to configure the
> OpenCMS system in such a way that it controls read access for  the entire
> site. This would allow our students to access the internal site via  the
> internet.
>
> I've played around with access control for a while now and I'm kind of
> stuck. I can control access to dynamic pages by setting the  page or folder
> group to "Users" and changing access rights so that only group members can
> read the file.
>
> The problem is, this also means that all of these users now have access to
> the OpenCMS workplace. I don't want to see any of them in my workplace. In
> fact, I'd  much prefer if they were guests who are not supposed to log in
> to the workplace at all.
>
> However, the problem with guests on the other hand is that they don't have
> to log in to the intranet either (browsers does not request login). So as
> soon as I set the group for all pages and folders to guests they are
> visible for everyone. And, of course, this is not  what I'm looking for
> either.
>
> I would just like to have an area which has limited access for "the world"
> and a workspace which is accessible only for a subset of those who may read
> the pages.
>
> Am I making a mistake somewhere? Or has anyone ever successfully set up
> something like this?
>
> Your hints and suggestions are more than welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Klaus Müller

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