Assigning Users to Contexts (I hope again easy)

I am reading the docs but I’m getting confused.

I have multiple contexts. I want a user assigned to one context, resources only.

What is my approach?

Put the user in a user group and create a Context Access ACL entry giving that group access to the one context they should see. If the admin group has similar ACL entries for the other contexts, they will be protected and hidden from that user -- assuming that the user is not in the admin group.

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 02, 2011, 04:34 PM

Put the user in a user group and create a Context Access ACL entry giving that group access to the one context they should see.

Thanks BobRay, but how? I see how to add "all contexts" but not how to limit it to one.

Right click on the user group and select "update."
Click on the Context Access tab.
Add a new entry with the named context in the "context" field.

Quote from: BobRay at Mar 02, 2011, 10:42 PM

Right click on the user group and select "update."

Ah hah. I hadn’t found that. Man the access controls area is a catacomb.

When I thought I had it set up I tried logging in with my test user but got an insufficient permissions error. Let me see if I can break it down in steps:

1. Create a user
2. Create a group
2. Assign that user to the new group as a member role
3. Assign that group to a context with an access policy of resource

What am I missing?

Did you flush permissions (Site -> Flush permissions)?

Might want to give exact details on the values you set for the different ACL entries - perhaps something’s wrong there.

Quote from: Pier2Design at Mar 03, 2011, 10:07 AM

Let me see if I can break it down in steps:

1. Create a user
2. Create a group
2. Assign that user to the new group as a member role

Simple until there.

Then:

3. Assign that group to a context with an access policy of resource

What am I missing?

Nothing, but the phrase by itself is very frightening.

Someone needs to come up with a graphic to explain the whole user/groups arrangement. Its a mind-job.

There’s a cheatsheet featuring permissions here: http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=48252.0

Perhaps this can help, too: http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Security+Tutorials

Mark H, wow, as illustrated by Bart Simpson, Asterix, and Darth Vader. Can you get any cooler than that?

It’s still mind-blowing, but I’m going to work on it. Thanks.