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Security Configuration - Groups, Users, Categories

posts: 40

I am trying to get a working security configuration and have read just about everything I can in order to understand how to do this. Something, is still going wrong.

The object is to only users in the group EDITORS access to a structure called PROJECT INFORMATION.

Here is what I have done.
1. Create a group called EDITORS

2. Assigned the user SAM to the EDITORS group

3. Assign the privileges "tiki_p_view_categories" and "tiki_p_edit_categories" to the EDITORS group. (I think that this specifies that any user in this group can view and edit categories that are assigned to this group)

4. Create a category called EDITORS (I named it the same name as the group to help keep things straight)

5. Created a structure called "PROJECT INFORMATION" I assigned it to the category EDITORS because I only want people in the EDITORS group to be able to see documents in this structure.

I think that I then have to assign the category EDITORS to the group EDITORS
but I have no idea how or where to do this. HELP. Where do you go to do this??

As it stands now, Sam can see all the structures that have not had any security on them but Sam can not see the PROJECT INFORMATION structure.

Thanks....

When this is fixed, I will write up and post this procedure!

posts: 838 United Kingdom
sounds like you haven't set any permissions for the Group called EDITORS in the Category called EDITORS. Use the Admin Categories screen and the permissions tool (the key symbol) and make sure you set both tiki_p_view_categorized AND tiki_p_edit_categorized
posts: 40

I went to the Admin Categories Screen (It is titled "Assign Permissions To Category Top:Editors"

I clicked on the yellow key next to EDITORS. The two permissions that I get in the drop down box that I can choose from are:

tiki_p_view_categories and tiki_p_admin_categories

1. Is tiki_p_view_CATEGORIZED the same as tiki_p_view_CATEGORIES?
2. I don't see a tiki_p_edit_categorized.

Any suggestions?

posts: 40

I posted my updates to this as a reply to my original message. Sorry!!

By the way... in the CATEGORY called Editors, I should have said that I added the following privileges for the group called EDITORS.

tiki_p_edit_categorized
tiki_p_view_categories
tiki_p_view_categorized

posts: 40

Update from more testing

It looks like a user in the EDITOR group can see and edit the individual pages in the structure. I tested this by logging on as a user in the EDITOR group and using the LIST PAGES menu entry.

However, if that user clicks on the the STRUCTURES menu selection, the structure that I am trying to give them access to is not listed.

The only structures that are listed are the ones that have no privileges assigned to them.


posts: 40

OK.. I tried the following but it still doesn't work... The goal is to allows users in the group EDITORS to view a structure that is in a CATEGORY called EDITORS.

Here is the result / current security set up...

CATEGORY: EDITORS ---------------------
In the CATEGORY called Editors, I have the following privileges
tiki_p_edit_categorized
tiki_p_view_categories
tiki_p_view_categorized

... and I have the following object (structure)
st_project_information

GROUP: EDITORS: ----------------------
In the GROUP called EDITORS, I have the following privileges:

tiki_p_edit
tiki_p_edit_categorized
tiki_p_edit_structures
tiki_p_export_wiki
tiki_p_view_categories
tiki_p_view_categorized
tiki_p_watch_structure
tiki_p_wiki_attach_files
tiki_p_wiki_view_attachments
tiki_p_wiki_view_comments
tiki_p_wiki_view_history


and I have the following user:

gluckfs at yahoo.com / Friday 12 of December, 2008 18:14:30 CST
Need to validate email /Registered Editors(x) default
---------------------------

When I log in as gluckfsatyahoo.com, I can only see structures that have not been placed in a Category but I can not see the st_project_information.


Any ideas to make this work?


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