[Typo3] Backend users problem

Simon Tuck e-mailNO at SPAMeyejet.com
Thu Sep 29 11:08:27 CEST 2005


Dmitrii Dimandt wrote:
> On 9/29/05, Simon Tuck <e-mailNO at spameyejet.com> wrote:
> 
>>Dmitrii Dimandt wrote:
>>
>>>I've created a user group and a user as a member of this group. The
>>>group has near-admin privileges (almost everything is selected in
>>>access lists - except for creation of usergroups and users).
>>>
>>>However, when I log in with the newly created user, no pagetree is displayed.
>>>
>>>Specifying DB Mount for the user group doesn't help either. In this
>>>case only the page specified as the starting point is displayed and
>>>nothing can be done with it - pagecontent cannot be created, the page
>>>cannot be deleted or modified and so on.
>>>
>>>Could I have missed something?
>>
>>Maybe you forgot to set the access rights for the usergroup? Check your permissions in web > access.
>>cheers
>>simon
> 
> 
> Oh, ok, I got it. Through Web->Access. Hmmm... However, this doesn't
> feel quite right. Right now I have a site that spans well over a
> hundred pages on six levels. I had to go through the entire site and
> set permissions for quite a few pages (since the backend allows only
> to set permissions for 4 levels at once).
> 
> Moreover, the backend allows me to set permission only for one group.
> What if I have several groups with access to different parts of the
> site? Is there a way to set these permissions all at once?

You need to split your user management by role and by access. so you'd have user groups that define what a user can do and 
separate user groups that define which pages a user can access.



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