By thomasm on

Hello,

I have recently inherited a Drupal based web site. I am not a web master but I have to “take care” of the site for a while.

One of the things I need to do is create an area where authenticated users can see a list of documents and then download the documents accordingly. Perhaps it is something very simple that I am missing. But it seems that un-authenticated users can see any section of the site, they just can’t post. After reading the documentation on the Drupal site, I am thinking the only way to go is create a module and restrict the access via the admin section. But I am not a programmer and this seems like a fairly big task. Like I said, I am new to this. But I couldn’t seem to find anything like this issue in the forums. I don’t want to use HTaccess.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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cel4145’s picture

cel4145 commented

Try either the node privacy by role or taxonomy access modules which are available for download. Either one of those could be used to restrict access, and each has its own benefits. And no programming required :)

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gravyface commented

Install it and create groups, roles, and assign your users to each.
Then a SimpleAccess box will appear on your node edit/create content screens with a checkbox to allow/disallow permissions for those groups.

Check out the simpleaccess related threads in the forums for more info.

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thomasm commented

Thanks guys.

I will take a look.