Closed User Groups
What is a Closed User Group?
CUG is a Web Site with User Authentication. The site consists of pages, some of which are
publicly accessible, usually the home page at least, and pages which are only accessible
by the members of a particular user group. You can have as many groups as you require and
each user can be a member of one or more of the groups.
An Example:
You might have a group for managers, a group for sales staff and a group for all staff. If
these groups are called managers, sales and staff then Mr B. Chief, a manager, will be a
member of all three groups and so have access to everything on the site; Mr S. Talk, a
salesman, will be a member of sales and staff, and all other employees will be members of
the staff group only.
As another example, you might be providing information to paying subscribers and have
different groups corresponding to different subscription levels. You might decide to have
no publicly accessible pages at all. This would then be a truly "closed" user
group!
You create and delete user accounts, change the group membership and passwords of user
accounts and allocate the pages of your site to one group or another, just as and how
often you like. |