[support] permission problem

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Sep 14 22:27:25 UTC 2007


Quoting Laura Scott <laura at pingv.com>:

> On Sep 14, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
>> Quoting Stefan Seefeld <seefeld at sympatico.ca>:
>>
>>> Metzler, David wrote:
>>>> They don't need to be a full admin, but they do need administer
>>>> nodes
>>>> privileges. I typically give this for site editors.
>>>
>>> OK. Are there any potentially dangerous side-effects in giving
>>> this sort of
>>> previledge to all authorized users (as Laura seemed to allude to) ?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.  If you want to control the users to a particular node type you
>> can't.  Also allows the users to CRUD node types and puts
>> administrative items in the menu.
>
> You *can* give users permissions to edit their own nodes, though I'm
> not sure if they can see their own unpublished nodes. Getting their
> node published, though, is another wrinkle without administer nodes
> permissions. Perhaps a combination of a cck field and actions module?
>

I already pointed to http://drupal.org/project/override_node_options


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