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

[Marcus Redeker]

Can I create a WebUser with the BackOffice user screens? Or do I use the
methods in CmcObject for that?
Thanks,
--Marcus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org 
> [mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org] On Behalf Of M Butcher
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:34 AM
> To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
> Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] Password protected areas of the website.
> 
> 
> Use WebUsers (not to be confused with the WebUser table which 
> is for storing additional info).
> 
> Take a look at the Javadocs for the 
> com.opencms.file.CmsObject (readWebUser, createWebUser, etc.) 
> and com.opencms.file.CmsUser
> 
> In short, a webuser is stored in the same table as regular 
> users, but 1) does not have permissions to use the CMS and 2) 
> does not have much of the permissions that regular users 
> have. We use webusers for exactly the purpose you are talking about.
> 
> Now, there are also other ways of achieving the same results 
> with standard HTTP auth and some tweaks to your code. If 
> webuser won't work, you may want to look at building an 
> external mechanism.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:26, Ben Rometsch wrote:
> > 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
> > 
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