User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Overview
- Preparing Your Network and Installing Contribute
- Preparing your web server before you deploy
- Planning your Contribute site structure and connection path
- Installing Contribute and creating an administrative connection
- Installing Contribute Publishing Server (Optional)
- Configuring Contribute and Contribute Publishing Server to work with your website
- Index
Understanding Contribute user management models 7
Consider a large organization with several decentralized websites. In addition to a public facing
site that provides information about the organization, there are several internal sites in use by
individual departments and workgroups. The organization uses LDAP as both a directory service
that lets users look up other employees as well as an authentication service through which
administrators set permissions limiting users’ access to file-sharing servers and other network
resources.
Unlike sites that don’t use CPS to manage users, when a user logs in to a CPS website, the User
Directory service retrieves the connection information associated with that user, and provides
access to the sites the administrator has assigned. By maintaining site connection information
within the User Directory, administrators can add or remove access to websites without having to
resend connection information.
This example provides a partial listing of employees from an organization’s user directory. The
employees, their workgroup affiliations, and the sites they can access are listed in the following
table:
Although this user list is oversimplified, it demonstrates one possible scenario for the way that
users within an organization might be assigned access to websites. This scenario divides users
according to their role within the organization, and assumes that they have full editing and
publishing privileges within their respective sites. Certain users have access to all the sites. For
example, the product managers, John Lydon and Malcolm McClaren, work with all the teams in
developing and launching products, and need to contribute to all the sites.
User Workgroup Websites
John Lydon Product Management Sales, Production, Marketing
Malcolm McClaren Product Management Sales, Production, Marketing
Martin Atkins Marketing Marketing
Keith Levine Sales Sales
John Savage Production Production
Laura Logic Web Design Sales, Production, Marketing
Jah Wobble Contribute Administrator Sales, Production, Marketing