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Chapter 7. Managing User Accounts (Drupal 8 User Guide)

Hands-on: Configuring Permissions

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    [By Angela Byron & Addison Berry with Bruno De Bondt]
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    [Using Drupal - Drupal Jumpstart] [Hands-on: Configuring Permissions]
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    [with Addison Berry]
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    Even with roles and users set up on your site,
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    you're not doing very much in the way of access control
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    until you take a look at permissions.
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    In this lesson we're going to specifically be setting up the last of our access control
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    by digging into permissions.
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    First what we need to do is review the roles that we have
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    and set permissions per role,

Using Drupal Chapter 2: Drupal Jumpstart

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Hands-On: Configuring Permissions

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14 minutes 12 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

With roles and users in place on the site, we have a good start, but we aren't actually controlling access very well until we set up the permissions to go with those. In this lesson we need to set permissions for our roles, and take a look at some important security concerns around permissions. Finally, we'll test our access control by logging in as our users to make sure everything is acting as it should.

Additional resources: 

Using Drupal, 2nd edition

Using Drupal source code

Drupalize.Me Guide: Using Drupal Book by O'Reilly Media