drupal 6.x, v6 transparent admin
I am looking for transparent administration, open, visible and sometimes editable admin settings with security. based on permissions, locked individually (as a node?), password protected, view and/or edit choice for admin inserted at the top or bottom of all admin/settings pages. even better, password or radio button next to every settings choice as viewable and/or editable similar to form field protect. a prominent notification to the user, “you can view this page of administration settings, if they require edit, please email administration with your request link”. Possibly even attached comment or site note section, ability to insert instruction or voting widget.
I gather this is the approach taken by adding access control to the core and maybe it is similar to drupal core building. I have been looking at everything I can find and I’m not a programmer yet, so I need to pass what I’ve found on to someone else here. If someone can put these pieces together or have experience with something similar with any version 4,5,6,7. i'm listing this at all of these locations aswell. Rsvp, elisa

http://drupal.org/node/109157 access control
http://drupal.org/node/131101#comment-735943 Add disabled attribute to protected fields
http://drupal.org/node/245900 How to Protect Nodes From Editing on Demand
http://drupal.org/node/31143#comment-796152 Node Privacy by Role not working
http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess nodeaccess
http://drupal.org/node/126129#comment-703933 password protect a page
http://drupal.org/node/222263#comment-902378 Port of Content access for D6
http://drupal.org/node/29991#comment-51352 Protected content
http://drupal.org/node/13266 Show block to certain users or roles only- Drupal 4.6
http://drupal.org/project/simple_access simple access
http://drupal.org/node/118404#comment-735895 View, but not edit, field at node/xxx/edit

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mrtoner commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Please post in the forums any requests for custom module development.

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designanddraft commented
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

not trying for custom module, trying to see if this is already offered or adaptable in an existing one. thought if i put together the clues this might just be how something was already tryng to work, particularly access control and simple access with a view edit delete function. thanks so much, if it is a custome module in the end that i need i will take that route.

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mrtoner commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

As I understand it, Elisa, you're looking for access control for administrative settings. Drupal already provides extensive access control in core for administrative settings -- in D6 it's found at Administer > User Management > Permissions.

The modules that you are cross-posting feature requests for are all node access modules, so they do not and will not provide the administrative access controls you are looking for. If the access controls in core are not sufficient, a custom module would be appropriate.