[opencms-dev] users with access rights for published website, not admin website

[nlunebur]

Hi Claus,

You've answered my post spot on.
Now time for me to go and try it out.

Thankyou!
nicole

Claus Priisholm wrote:

> Nope, it applies to every resource  whether it belongs to the site or 
> the administrative interface (the administrative interface is 
> basically just a special and protected section of an OpenCms web-site).
> The same access-control is used for all parts of an OpenCms site, so 
> you can easily make an extranet/intranet solution.
> When you browse a site you're actually considered to be 'logged in' as 
> a Guest-user and per default resources in the online-project is 
> viewable by guests. Revoking that right from a resource, say a page, 
> will hide it. The guest user then will have to log in as another user 
> with sufficient privileges in order to see the protected page.
> This mechanism automatically applies to the API functions that you use 
> to build the navigation, so the protected page won't be visible in 
> your navigation nor in a sitemap. And if the a user got hold of the 
> url for the page anyhow, he or she would still have to provide a valid 
> login to get it to show.
>
> /Claus
>
> On 17/5-2005, at 8.35, nlunebur wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently going through an evaluation of OpenCms, so far so good!
>> I need to know if it is possible to have users/groups that have 
>> specific access/view permissions on the PUBLISHED website.
>>
>> What I want is to be able to have restricted access to particular 
>> parts of the website, eg. sensitive content etc. So I want a public 
>> user who can view public pages, and one or more admin users who can 
>> view particular website pages.
>>
>> According OpenCms feature list /'...every resource in OpenCms has an 
>> owner, an associated user group and specific access permissions 
>> (divided into read, write and visible) that can be assigned to the 
>> owner, the group and all others ...'/ but I think this only applies 
>> to the admin side of things, is this right?
>>
>> I've looked around the documentation and archives but haven't found 
>> anything useful enough to start with.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> nicole
>>
>>
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