[opencms-dev] Password protected areas of the website.

[Ben Rometsch]

Hi There,

My company just won a CMS project with one of our clients, with OpenCMS
winning the package selection process, so you can expect some traffic on
this list from our direction for the next few weeks!

One of the requirements of the website we are building is a "client area".
This will allow users to be provided with a username and password, enabling
them to access certain privileged resources on the site. I have had a look
on opencms.org and the mailing list archives, but have not found anything
concrete. There was mention of a WebUser table in the mailing list, but the
search functionality of the mail archive is broken at the moment, so I
cannot dig any deeper. 

What would be the best way to approach this? I don't want these clients to
be able to access the CMS Workplace, I just want them to be able to see
certain sections of the website that are not available to the general
public. This may rule out using the User management functionality built into
OpenCMS, I'm not sure. 

Thanks,
Ben Rometsch