FW: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration

[Marcus Redeker]

All,

what is the latest status about the webuser issue? I am just in the
process of ugrading to the latest CVS head (Version 5.3.5) and will
probably convert my webuser backend into the administration view again.
Is this something the community is still interested in? What are the
plans of the OpenCMS guys in this matter? Are webusers still supported
or will they be kicked out soon? I really like the feature because it is
easy to use to create user based views of the website without creating
'real' OpenCMS users.

Let me know what you think. I can send the modifications to the OpenCMS
guys if the webuser remain in the system and other people are using them
too.

--Marcus



-----Original Message-----
From: Lex van Sonderen 
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 10:11 PM
To: Marcus Redeker
Subject: Re: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration


Hello Marcus,

Did you ever make the webuser management available?

Best,

Lex van Sonderen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Redeker"
To: <opencms-dev at opencms.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: [opencms-dev] WebUser and WebUser administration


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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