Role needed with less permissions than authenticated user
ebrophy - November 15, 2007 - 03:26
I have Drupal 4.7.6 installed and I want to create a role that has less permissions than authenticated users, but more than anonymous. I want all authenticated users to have the ability to comment, but I don't want certain authenticated users to not have the comment ability. Any suggestions?
Change authenticated user
Change authenticated user so that it can't post comments, create a new role which can post comments, and give all your users except the "aren't allowed to comment"-people the new role.
I'm pretty sure that creating a role that has fewer permissions than authenticated user is impossible (or at least very hard and not worth the bother).
I thought of this also, but
I thought of this also, but I work for a newspaper that has over 150,000 registered users and that would be alot of work to pull them over to the new role. I wonder if there's a way to automatically make an authenticated user become a certain role when they login or first create their account.
Ouch
Ouch, that sounds like a huge job. I don't know of any way to avoid it, though. Perhaps someone else has an idea?
As for your other question, http://drupal.org/project/registration_role looks promising. I haven't tried it myself, though.
Good luck!
SQL command
I bet you can just use a SQL command to change them all at one time in a few seconds.
this module is exactly what
this module is exactly what I needed...thanks for showing me the way. Now to figure out how to get all those authenticated users over to the new role in one automatic move... :)
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I'd investigate the role_weights.module for the orginal problem. doing so should negate the need to move the users. as you can weight a role to be less than authenticated.
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