[Tikiwiki-devel] Anon and Reg. users

[Markus G. v. K. <ma...@gu...>]

I have posted about this in the Open Discussion forum but got no answer so far. And since permission related stuff is under
discussion currently anyway, I thought to bring this topic here up again.
Maybe anyone of you people can be of help.
TIA, Markus


Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not quite sure about how anon and registered users are handled.

I want to get rid of the big applic. menu for anon users with lots of "permission denied" entries for stuff which is not publicly
available. So I created a small applic. menu for anon users only, which is assigned to the anon group.
The big (normal) applic. menu I assigned to the registered group only.
When viewing tiki as anon user, this works fine, but logging in gives me both applic menus.

I checked the user settings and noticed, that he belongs to both registered AND anon groups. While I can remove the assignment to
the registered group, I cannot remove the assignment to the anon group. And from the group settings it seems that both groups do not
inherit from each other either.

Now, I don't understand, why a user who logged in and who always should belong to the registered group (which should not be changed,
IMHO), also belongs to the anonymous group (to which he does not belong anymore, since he logged in).

The manual states on page 185:
· Anonymous : Users that are not logged automatically belong to the anonimous group.
· Registered group: Users logged in automatically belong to this group.

So both groups are separated. On the other hand it states on page 187:
Anonymous -> Registered -> Paid -> VIP

So registered users inherit from anon users (which is not clear from the group settings.)

Anyway, to cut a long story short :-)
I'd prefer and like to see both groups separated, since a user cannot belong to both at the same time.

What are your opinions?