[support] Switching anonymous access to the whole site on and off

[Metzler, David]

It won't look as nice as a "site maintenance" message, but removing the
"access content" privilege from anonymous users will likely do the
trick. 

I've never done what you're suggesting in a template, but I use exactly
that strategy in my cas module.  (make a simple module that runs
implements hook_init() that does this check, and redirects the user with
"drupal_goto".

You might be able to do it in the template but be careful about things
that might send output before you try the redirect.  

For what you need it would be about a five line module, call it say
force_login.module. 

function force_login_init()
{
  global $user; 
  if (!$user->uid)
    drupal_goto('user/login');
}

Then your master switch is simply enabling/disabling this module. 

Dave 

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of jp.stacey at torchbox.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:34 AM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Switching anonymous access to the whole site on and
off

Hi,

What would be the quickest way to switch anonymous access to a site on
and off? We have a large and fairly complex site almost ready to go, but
we need third parties (with logins) to fill in and test content before
it goes live.

As we've a lot of modules we've got quite complex permissions already,
so checking and unchecking a lot of fields would be difficult to do
quickly.
Is there any "master switch" permission we can fix to lock it all down?

Otherwise, would it be worth putting a check for $user->uid in our
template.php, and bouncing anyone to user/login if they don't have it
set? Anyone see any problems with that?

Many thanks,
J-P
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