By daniel read on

Hello,

Does anyone know of a way to have a simple password protected node? What I mean by simple is that I only wish to protect a certain node with a shared password. This is a web site for a club, and we need a page for the club's roster, with everyone's personal contact information on it. On the club's old file-based site, before we migrated it to drupal, this was easy to achieve by password protecting the directory using basic HTTP authentication, and then giving the user name and password out to the club members. We've got the whole site converted to drupal except for this one thing.

I tried the securesite module, but it does not seem to work as advertised. I was never able to get it to block access or interrogate for authentication for any node. And even if I had gotten it to work, I don't see a way for me to just specify *one* user name and/or password and let that be the end of it. If a person tries to browse to the page and does not know the password, then they see a forbidden message, just like HTTP basic authentication. We don't need a form to request a password, and we definitely don't want to manage multiple user accounts.

Does anyone know of a way to do this?

Thanks,
Dan

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mango commented

Possibly simple_access will solve your problem.

This module can manage viewability, editability, and/or deletability and provides an easy way to make nodes accessible by only a group (or groups) of users. It is perfectly suited for making private nodes that are only viewable to certain 'access groups'.

I have installed it myself and it works like a charm. It is very easy and does what you expect.

http://drupal.org/project/simple_access

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daniel read commented

Thanks for taking the time to answer my post. Your answer pointed me in the right direction. It wasn't exactly what I was looking for (in a perfect world I'd prefer not to have to make up a role and force the user to log in first on a different web page), but this does the trick well enough. It's funny that I missed it, because I spent a fair amount of time looking around on the modules page. Partly I think I just wasn't searching the page with the right keywords.

Thanks again,
Dan