Understanding Contribute user management models
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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
