Despite claims to the contrary Joomla 1.5 does have an ACL system. It may be rudimentary but when fully understood can be very useful.
To help you I've created a simple table with an overview of who can do what.
| Front-end Groups | Back-end Groups | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Un-registered | Registered | Author | Editor | Publisher | Manager | Administrator | Super-Administrator | |
| View "public" content | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View "registered" content | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| View "special" content | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create new content | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit own content | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit all content | - | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Publish new content | - | - | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Access the Administrator page | - | - | - | - | - | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create new users | - | - | - | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| Install extensions | - | - | - | - | - | - | Yes | Yes |
| Change the template | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Yes |
| Change site settings | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Yes |
NOTE to the accessibility mafia - yes its a table. This is an example of the correct use of a table as it is presenting tabular data. In addition the table has been created with header and id attributes to aid screen readers.
This chart is also available in Italian at www.joomla.it
This chart is now available in Spanish at www.gnumax.org
