I may have the opportunity to sell one of my clients on acquiring a business license for EE. Question they’re asking and I can’t answer: Is there password authentication available built into EE? They want to make the blog available to employees, but not on the intranet. They want it on the Web, but want only employees to be able to get in. I know we could set up a .htaccess file, but it’ll help if I can tell them access controls are built into EE.

Since I don’t use anything like this on my blog, I don’t know the answer.

Thanks…

I don’t understand what you mean.  There is a fairly in depth member system in EE. You can make it so that certainly templates are only available to whatever member groups you specify.  It’s not a popup, but it’s still restricted access.

Hi, LJ.

Well, what they want is for NOBODY to be able to see ANY posts without being a member. Possible? This would be a VP’s blog to about 133,000 employees.

/slh

Of course. Just make a front page (say make index the front page with no posts) and have them login and then link to templates with posts.

Every person viewing your site, whether they are a registered member or not, is considered a member of a group.  EE has several groups by default (guests, members, administrators, etc.), and you can create as many additional ones as you want.

Each group can be restricted in many, many ways.  For example, you might want certain pages available only to the administrative group, and others available to the “guests” group.  Or you might want to grant control panel privileges to a certain group, or you might want a group to have editorial privileges, or you might want to allow a group to edit your site templates, etc. 

Groups are very powerful since you have something like 40 or 50 parameters that can be enabled/disabled on any given group, giving you fine grain control over what any person - whether a member or not - is allowed to see and do.

Furthermore, EACH page of your site can be restricted based on groups.  So yes, you can easily accomplish what you need.

So, the answer is yes…Your next question will/should be about getting those 133,000 employees into the membership system and groups.
I’m interested in the options on how that gets accomplished :-)

Has anyone every attempted ActiveDirectory/LDAP integration?

Dan Lovejoy - 08 July 2005 02:22 PM

Has anyone every attempted ActiveDirectory/LDAP integration?

I’d be interested in an answer to this question as well…  We’d like to be able to use our own authentication/authorization system to create the groups of users that will access an EE site.  Is it possible?