Need documentation on Roles and Policies set up !

Tuesday 10 May 2005 8:34:43 am

Hello

I can't find documentation on ez.no about the Roles and Policies management ... could someone lead me to the right page ?

Thx

/Lex

Tuesday 10 May 2005 9:00:34 am

Actually I would need docs on how to set up the Roles and Policies in the admin interface, because people are usually completely lost with the concepts of the roles / sections / user groups.

Tuesday 10 May 2005 9:34:30 am

I found a "Permissions" tutorial on ezcommunity.net. Look here

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http://ezcommunity.net/article/view/86/1/30/
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Wednesday 11 May 2005 12:10:04 am

OK, so let's write some doc on this :-D

First some definitions :

User : A user accounts represents a person who is involved in the web site.

Group : A user can be member of a set of groups with different security profiles which aids administrators in the definition, assignment, and maintenance of security policies for a user or a group of users.

Roles and Policies : User permissions and access control on content objects are based on roles. Roles apply a set of policies to a set of users and/or user groups. A policy depending on the module, can dictate access to module level and sometimes function level. Each policy can apply to a particular Subtree, Node, or a Section; or a combination there-of. (this sentence is from ez.no )

Wednesday 11 May 2005 3:57:07 am

2 Lex 007

Now, let me summarize all the said:

The central terms are a <b>user group</b> and a <b>role</b>. Each one organized in the form of tree. Here is a "scetch":

+ User group
  |
  |- User1 
  |- User2 
  |- User3

And here is how the roles look like:

+ Role
  |
  |- Policy1
  |- Policy2
  |- Policy3

Example:

+ Tough guys [User group]
  |
  |- Marat M.[a separate user]
  |- Lex 007 [a separate user]
  |- Kracker [a separate user]

+ Anonymous [Role]
  |
  |- Content-Read-Section [a separate policy]
  |- Content-PDF-Section  [a separate policy] 
  |- RSS-Feed-No_limitations  [a separate policy]

Let's go further. As it may be seen in the admin, we can <b>assign with limitation</b> to a user, or to a user group.

<b>Assign with limitaion</b> means WHERE (the section or subtree node) the user or group will do something, whereas the particular <b>policies</b> set for the role (a user or usergroup belongs to) define WHAT a user or group can do in that section or node.

The difference between sections and subtree nodes (where the contect objects reside) can be found in the Documentation/Basics.

Do correct me if I'm mistaken . Waiting for comments.

-Marat

Wednesday 11 May 2005 7:19:46 am

I will. Hope meanwhile someone from the eZ staff and forum members will contribute to my post and - what is more likely - will correct my writings.

Thanks 2 all,
-Marat

P.S. Our main purpose is to create a document for BEGINNERS, that have absolutely no knowledge of eZpublish and very little - of PHP.