FarCry ships with a series of default security roles out of the box. These roles are mapped to groups within the default FarCry userdirectory. |
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/ users are denied. |
Registered website community member. |
News Contributor |
Can create, edit, view and request approval for content in the CONTENT area. |
Example role for a contributor with restricted access to content types. |
Publishers |
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 the ability to do nearly everything. |
Site administration including security settings. |
SysAdmin |
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. |