Overview
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FarCry ships with a series of default security roles out of the box. These roles are mapped to groups within the default FarCry userdirectory. |
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Roles can be remapped, added, removed, or permission pools modified post installation (and frequently are) to match the specific requirements of the deployment in question. |
Default Security Roles | Description | Typical User |
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Anonymous | A special role (or rather absence of a role) that can also have standard permissions assigned. No specific permissions applied by default. | General visitor to site |
Contributors | Can create, edit, view and request approval only for SITE and CONTENT areas | Content author that requires internal approval to publish. |
Member | No specific permissions applied by default. Useful for creating extranet areas ie. members can be given view rights while /anonymous is denied/ users are denied. | Registered website community member. |
News Contributor | can Can create, edit, view and request approval of a news item onlyfor content in the CONTENT area. | Example role for a contributor with restricted access to content types. |
Publishers | can Can approve, approve own content, access container management, create, delete, edit, request approval and view from most areas of the site. | Content author that can approve own content or other contributors content. |
SiteAdmin | has Has the ability to do nearly everything. | Site administration including security settings. |
SysAdmin | has Has the ability to do everything, including a all development and administration utilities. | Highest level of access. Very similar to site admin but may include additional developer tools and functionality that might be operationally dangerous if used incorrectly. |