Jamie,

I know you liked Steve's answer. But I thought I'd share one more solution I have come to use recently and love.

This is a non-Drupal solution that requires an Apache server: use .htpasswd and .htaccess to restrict access to the Drupal root directory.

If you don't know how to do this, here is a simple tutorial:
https://www.addedbytes.com/blog/code/password-protect-a-directory-with-htaccess/

It has the following advantages:

The need is temporary; will you remember to remove "Access site in maintenance mode" permission after site goes live? Since the use of maintenance mode is different after the site goes live than before, you may not want to have those folks using the site in maintenance mode. In fact, you probably won't want them to have that permission. With the .htpasswd approach, you can't forget to turn it off because the public can't see the site at all with .htpasswd turned on.
The Drupal warning messages about the site being on offline mode can be annoying or even problematic. By problematic I mean that the folks who are reviewing the site as part of a final review can include people who are focusing on layout/page design. The appearance of that site offline message can make it harder for those checkers to evaluate whether the graphic design is in place as necessary.

Shai

On 08/29/2014 03:11 PM, Drupal wrote:

That’s why am I talking about! :D
I couldn’t see it nor anybody mentioned it when I was goggling it…

Thanks Steve!

On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Steve Edwards <killshot91@gmail.com> wrote:

Give the editor role the "Use the site in maintenance mode" permission.

On Aug 29, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Drupal <drupal@afan.net> wrote:

That’s not what am I talking about.
I’m admin and I have access to the website while in Maintenance mode. And nobody else. I created an “editor” role for a guy to final content checking and testing and spelling fixes. How to give him the access to the website?

On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Nancy Wichmann <nan_wich@bellsouth.net> wrote:

They just need to know to stick "/user" on the end of the URL and they can log in as normal.

Hi,
The site I’m working on is pretty much done but I still can’t make it public until website editors do some content changes and spelling corrections. I don’t want to give them the admin access so I was wondering how to make their role (editor) bypass the maintenance mode - without any changes in the code or me writing a new module.

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