[opencms-dev] Prompting a user to login?

[T Reaves]

On Jul 30, 2005, at 8:34 AM, opencms at astilla.co.uk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a new user to CMS systems in general and have recently installed
> OpenCms 6 to have a play with.  Although I am an experienced J2EE  
> developer
> I am finding the OpenCms 6 docs somewhat lacking - is there a  
> quickstart
> tutorial anywhere?
>
> Anyway, my specific question is:  is there a way for a user to see  
> a page
> link in a nav menu but when they click it have them authenticate  
> first?  I
> can't seem to find a way to protect pages so that a login box is  
> displayed.
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but if anyone can point me  
> in the
> right direction it would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>   Andrew


     Click the resources icon in the workplace, and select  
permissions. Then add the allowed / disallowed permissions.  You also  
need to either create a login page, or use realm based auth, set up  
in your opencms config file.