Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Groups -- the public, unregistered users, permissions

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8: Re: Groups -- the public, unregistered users, permissions (response to 1)
Posted by Lars Pind on 06/16/03 02:06 PM
Why don't we just implement anonymous postings, while we're at it? :)

If we did, how would we do it? Create a special 'Anonymous Coward' user, or use the existing 'Unregistered Visitor' person with person_id 0?

I guess if we use person_id 0, then we'll have to figure out another way of granting site-wide admin than granting permissions on object 0. Or maybe that wouldn't be a problem, actually.

/Lars

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9: Re: Groups -- the public, unregistered users, permissions (response to 8)
Posted by Jeff Davis on 06/16/03 02:17 PM
Lars, Don already changed the security context root to -4 from 0 so
that's not an issue (if you look in the permissions screen for a new
site you should not see any direct permissions on 0:
http://yourdomain.com/permissions/one?object_id=0 ) I don't see
anything in the way of doing this other than fixing some of the
screens to edit personal data so user_id 0 can't edit their own data.