[opencms-dev] User Roles

[Marc Schlegel]

As I mentioned, I am fine with the way it works now. But wouldn't it be 
easier to assign a role to a particular group. I wont have many users, 
so assigning the role to every user is ok for me but what if you have 
dozens of them?

regards

Alexander Kandzior schrieb:
> Marc,
>
> The permissions to create or edit a file in OpenCms is not only handled by
> the user roles, it also requires that you assign the required permissions to
> the folders.
>
> What you must do is the following: Create a group for your users, and (using
> the OpenCms Explorer) attach this group to the "root folder" of your site
> using the context menu (e.g. /sites/default/). Allow at least "read",
> "write" and "view" permissions for this group.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Alex.
>  
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> Alexander Kandzior
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org 
>> [mailto:opencms-dev-bounces at opencms.org] On Behalf Of Marc Schlegel
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 11:40 PM
>> To: The OpenCms mailing list
>> Subject: [opencms-dev] User Roles
>>
>> Hello Everyone
>>
>> I was posting about this some month ago and I would like to know if 
>> there will be changes in the next release.
>>
>> Right now (after some tests), I have to assign a user at 
>> least the VFS 
>> Resourcemanager role (which is almost an administrator) just 
>> make those 
>> user able to create/edit files.
>>
>>  From my understanding about roles I was expecting that a 
>> workplace user 
>> could do this, and only if a user need additional access to 
>> the system 
>> (accountmanager, resourcemanager). I will have unexperienced 
>> users soon 
>> and I want to give them as less possibilities to cause trouble as 
>> possible. They should only be able to create new pages and 
>> edit them. As 
>> Resourcemanagers they could even access the /system files.
>>
>> Will there be any changes in 7.0.5?
>> By the way, is there a schedule available for the new release already?
>>
>> regards
>> -- Marc
>>
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