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Kevin SoftDev kevin.softdev at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 13:14:26 PDT 2005


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On 7/12/05, Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> wrote: 
> 
> I hope all the CMS chit-chat isn't boring everyone....
> 
> I just noticed something rather neat about PHPWebSite's permission system:
> I was missing the forest for the trees. First I flagged people as an
> "admin." This is a special flag, though not a user group; there were
> originally no groups, so I created an admin group myself so I could send
> messages to all the admins at once. Then I discovered that just flagging
> someone as an 'admin' does nothing, but I could grant each user
> permissions individually for tons of things. But I'd forgotten that the
> groups have all those fine-grained permissions too.
> 
> So I think what you are supposed to do is create custom groups with
> permissions suited to your site's particular needs and just add users to
> the groups they need access to.
> 
> This is much better than I thought it was. Someone should check and see
> if Mambo does it as well.
> 
> Dustin
> 
>
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