[opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration

[M Butcher]

Marcus,

I am very interested, and some time ago, Alex from Alkacon said they
were interested in that patch, too.

Thanks,

Matt

On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 12:32, Marcus Redeker wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> following the discussions here it looks like a lot of people are using
> the "Webuser" to restrict user from seeing certain pages in OpenCMS. We
> use the same mechanism to provide some kind of member access to our site
> for user which has to register with us but which are not supposed to use
> the OpenCMS backen.
> 
> So we created a login.jsp which is taking a username and password and
> performs a login as webuser. So this is fine but OpenCMS does not
> provide any way on maintaing the webuser. You have to implement
> everything yourself :-( I created one JSP which I can use to add more
> webuser to the system. But next thing was my boss asking how to delete
> them and how to update an email address.
> 
> Well I just did some modifications to OpenCMS an cloned the User
> Administration screen and the underlying java class to support webuser.
> This brings me an extra button under the User Administration which is
> called "Webuser" but offers the same functionality then the user button.
> 
> For this to work I needed to change some major classes and interfaces in
> OpenCMS and I was wondering if this is something the community is
> interested in. If yes I will try to find a way to send it to the OpenCMS
> guys so that they can create a fix for this.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> --Marcus
> 
> 
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