User Management / Advanced Permissions

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Hi,

I've found the process of building a c5 site relatively painless, until that is I needed user management and advanced permissions.

I'm building a site for an end user, someone who won't understand the implications and pitfalls of full admin rights, so therefore I want to limit what they can do when logged in.

With this in mind what I want to achieve is to lock certain areas of the template (the Main Nav area for example) so that the user can't edit or delete any blocks in that area.

How do I do that?

This is how far I've got at present:

1/
Added a new user to the site but didn't afford them admin privileges.

2/
Put the site into advanced permissions mode by adding
define('PERMISSIONS_MODEL', 'advanced');
to the site.php file

Now if I log in as this new user I don't get any kind of editing rights; no editing bar, no access to the dashboard - nothing. It just leaves me back at the home page as if I hadn't tried logging in at all.
I know I logged in successfully however because if I then log in as admin I can see in the Users and Groups section that the new user logged in.

HELP!!

I've read various posts about what a thorny subject this is, but been unable to glean enough from them to help me solve my problem.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.
It's greatly appreciated.

Tony.

 
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
Well now that you've got the site in advanced permissions mode you're going to need to set things correctly. Log back in as Admin (who is hard coded to be able to do anything anywhere) - and set the permissions the way you want them for the user you made.

-frz