By Stone316 on

Hey all,

Just curious how one would do this... Not sure if I can explain it correctly... I'm new to drupal so please forgive any ignorance I show.

One thing I would like to do is let anonymous users see my initial website. If I go into permissions there are two default 'roles'. The privilege in question is 'access content'. Now, if I grant that to anonymous they can see all content in the website.. forums, blogs, etc.. I don't want them to be able to do that.. they need to register for an account first and be approved.

Another question... Can I have different levels of users that have different content access levels? ie, I may have a forum that only the site admistrators should have access to... How would I set that up?

My last question is about the navigation bar.... If you turn that off, how do you administer drupal? The navigation bar for the admin account disappears as well..

Thanks

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MaraudeR@www.librexpresion.org’s picture

MaraudeR@www.librexpresion.org commented

Yes, you can create different user roles and assign them different permissions. You can learn about this in the Drupal Handbook, in this chapter. Although I think you cannot restrict anonymous users access just to front page.

Stone316’s picture

Stone316 commented

I haven't seen anything that lets you restrict access to content, only modules.... Kinda weird a "content management system" doesn't have this feature....

djtoon’s picture

djtoon commented

i appreciate this was some months ago, but did you ever find a solution to this issue.

I'm currently in the same situation, where i need anom users to view a few basic front pages and then auth users to access all other content.

would be interested to know if you managed to achieve this.

Big Dog’s picture

Big Dog commented

I was looking for support for private pages also, but after searching on "private" in the Drupal searchbox, I came to the conclusion it is not supported in the current software. Some people have worked on the problem and they called it "groups". Someone else suggested that maybe if you wrote a simple module that displayed your private pages maybe you could have at least some static private pages. But the current software does not support this feature, dispite the rather misleading or at the very least incomoplete info on roles and permissions in the Drupal doc.