Re: [Slashcode-general] permissions

[Alex M. <alex@OWAL.co.uk>]

At 14:02 24/07/03, Alex McLintock wrote:
>I want to give more of my users the ability to approve articles for 
>submission to the site - but I don't want them doing things like mess up 
>the structure of the site.
>
>Do I simply tick the "this user is an author" box or do I *have* to give 
>them a seclev of 1000 which lets them do all sorts of things?

The answer to my own question is that you should yes tick the user as an 
author but you should also give the user the seclev of 100. This gives the 
user enough permission magic to run the relevant bits of the submission 
program, but not do anything like change templates.

Alex

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