[Typo3] Backend users problem

[Dmitrii Dimandt]

On 9/29/05, Simon Tuck <e-mailNO at spameyejet.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thank yo for the tip. User management, here I come..