Private site (I'm afraid it can sound like a stupid question)

[pikkabbu]

Hi there,

Could sound a stupid question to use a CMS to hide contents to people, but...

I wonder if there's a way to make a private site with CMSMS, that's mean only visible for members.

Yahoo, Google and MSN groups allow members restrictions and so would I do : create a member for novels authoring, only visible for all the authors and not for public.

CMSMS could be the PERFECT collaborative Writing tools if that could be done.

Authors would all be members (with redactor rights) and any author could read (and modify) pages, but nodody more could see contents,

Does anybody knows if it's a way ?

Tks

pik

[jmcgin51]

You can use a combination of the FrontEndUsers and CustomContent modules to create a site that is protected.  You can display different content to different users, based on username or group.

Editing content is a different matter.  There is currently no link between FrontEndUsers and the Admin section, so you can't edit pages unless you log in separately to the Admin panel.  (In other words, just because you are authorized to SEE content doesn't mean you are authorized to CHANGE it.)  But you can create users and groups in the Admin section as well, and assign permissions as desired.

IMHO, the whole permissions issue (especially on the backend) is one of CMSMS's weakest points.  It works, and generally works well once you figure out the little undocumented secrets , but it could be made much more powerful and easy to use.  All in good time, I hope...

[Pierre M.]

Maybe you can filter at the webserver level, with .htaccess : workgroup name and workgroup shared password.
Light solution but better than nothing.
PM