[support] Applying drupal access control to PDF documents.

[Roy Smith]

On Jan 27, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Jason Flatt wrote:

> On Sunday, January 27 2008 8:27:56 am Roy Smith wrote:
>> I've been using the Nodeaccess (5.x-1.x-dev) module to control access
>> to a "members only" section of my web site.  I want to put some PDF
>> documents on the site, which will be subject to the same access
>> control, but I don't see any way to do this.
>>
>> I can upload the PDFs to the files directory, and link to them from a
>> protected page, but that doesn't really protect the PDFs.  Anybody
>> who could guess a URL would have unlimited access.  I know I can
>> add .htaccess protection at the apache level to the PDF's, but that
>> means people need to authenticate twice (once to drupal, again to
>> apache).  And, managing two sets of accounts would be a nightmare.
>>
>> Is there some way to embed a PDF directly as a drupal node, so I can
>> control access to it via the same mechanism as the rest of the site?
>>
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>> roy at panix.com
>
> I only skimmed it, so I may be wrong, but it seems this article  
> might address
> what you need:
> http://drupal.org/node/156547

Yeah, that looks pretty close.  The only hitch I can see is that I'm  
using a web hosting service, so I don't have direct control over the  
apache server.  I need to find out if they're running mod_auth_sql,  
or if they can be convinced to install it.

Thanks for the pointer!



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