Content access and node privacy by role are ready for d6 and can do it.

Allthough they are probably overkill if you need to have access set for only one role on only one content type. As a themer I would just make a node-private.tpl.php, load the user id of the viewing user and check if it belongs to the role id and then print $content or else a message that content may not be viewed.

A small custom module that does the same would of course be even better. Functionality like this is not supposed to be connected to a theme.

The other proposal with robots.txt does not seems good to me. Everyone can access freely robots.txt and get a list of your secret files. Also google does not always obey. If you would leave content unpublished and display the unpublished nodes in the view you could keep them private when limiting the access to the view to that role only, but its quite limiting as you cannot link (read more) to the node because it is not published. Im not sure what would happen if you would use the node id as an argument, maybe that could work.

Hans

2009/1/12, Steve Kessler skessler@denverdataman.com:

If you want to avoid using a module and the information could be seen if it was found by accident you could try using views and permissions. You can also edit your robots.txt file to not have Google index those pages. This is not a secure method but it avoids using taxonomy access control which is not ready for 6.

Hope this idea helps.

Thanks, Steve

Steve Kessler Denver DataMan 303-587-4428

-----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:daniel.carrera@theingots.org] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:23 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: [support] Content Types and Permissions

Hello,

I made a content type called "private" and I want to make it visible only to users with the "staff" role. I was hoping someone could tell me how to do that.

I already set the "create" and "edit" permissions, but I cannot find any way to change view permissions. Any ideas? I am very hesitant to try the taxonomy_access module. I've had problems with it in the past.

Daniel.

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