[support] Providing ownerships of a subset of the site to user/group

[Fran Fabrizio]

We are investigating Drupal for our department web site. Right now there 
is a person or group of persons responsible for each part of the site. 
When we convert to Drupal, what's the easiest way to give a user or role 
permission to "own" (i.e. the only ones who can edit that section) a set 
of pages without giving them permission to edit all pages or to publish 
pages outside of that area? Is there a module that is set up to handle 
this sort of "sandbox" model?

Concrete example (we are a department in a university). One of our 
faculty members is in charge of all the pages dealing with the graduate 
program. In our current site, this translates to all pages in the 
/graduate area. He owns all of the files in that folder, and can only 
publish new content to that folder. Another person is in charge of the 
undergraduate program (/undergrad), a third person is in charge of the 
continuing education program (/conted), and so on.

How best to model this in Drupal?  Is this something that Drupal is 
well-suited to handle?

Thanks!


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Fran Fabrizio
Senior Systems Analyst
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham
http://www.cis.uab.edu/
205.934.0653