Security - Controlling Access to Your FrontPage Web

FrontPage allow you to protect your web site from

• editing - other frontpage users
• browsing - any user looking at it from the web

User Access
IP Access
Special User Groups

Only Wesleyan User Access
Specific Academic Class Access
Department Access

Guest Accounts

Restricting User Access Using the FrontPage Security Tool

• you can secure your FrontPage web by Wesleyan email userid/password
• select Tools/Security Permissions

• set the radio button for Use unique permissions for this web
• press Apply
• choose the Users tab

• use Add/Edit/Remove to define users (Wesleyan email) and access rights
• Add User

  

  • Name - Wesleyan email userid (pleone)
  • Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
  • Confirm Password - same characters as Password
  • Choose the type of access for this user
    • Administer - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can do anything the owner can do (even set security)
    • Author - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can edit pages (can not change security)
    • Browse - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password (need to use the radio button  for Only registered users have browse access)
  • click OK
• use the radio button to give everyone browse access or only users listed above
• click Apply

Restricting IP Access Using the FrontPage Security Tool

• choose Computers tab

• for tighter security you can add the ip address of computers you want to have access
• click Apply
• click OK

Special Groups

Secure your site so only Wesleyan users can browse it.

• select Tools/Security Permissions

• set the radio button for Use unique permissions for this web
• press Apply
• choose the Users tab

• Add User
• In the Name field enter anywesuser

  

• Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
• Confirm Password - same characters as Password
• Choose the type of access for this user
  • Browse - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password (need to use the radio button  for Only registered users have browse access)
• click OK

• use the radio button to select only registered users have browse access
• click Apply

Secure your website so only a specific academic class can browse it.

• select Tools/Security Permissions

• set the radio button for Use unique permissions for this web
• press Apply
• choose the Users tab

• Add User
• In the Name field enter classlist_cid_yearsemester

  

• Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
• Confirm Password - same characters as Password
• Choose the type of access for this user
  • Browse - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password (need to use the radio button  for Only registered users have browse access)
• click OK

• use the radio button to select only registered users have browse access
• click Apply

Secure your website so only a specific department can browse it.

• select Tools/Security Permissions

• set the radio button for Use unique permissions for this web
• press Apply
• choose the Users tab

• Add User
• In the Name field enter dept_departmentcode

  

• Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
• Confirm Password - same characters as Password
• Choose the type of access for this user
  • Browse - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password (need to use the radio button  for Only registered users have browse access)
• click OK

• use the radio button to select only registered users have browse access
• click Apply

Guest Accounts

Secure your site and create an account for a non-Wesleyan users to browse it.

• select Tools/Security Permissions

• set the radio button for Use unique permissions for this web
• press Apply
• choose the Users tab

• Add User
• In the Name field enter guest_username
  • use the naming convention of guest_  followed by a unique identifier for the guest account
  • you want the account name to be unique from all valid wesleyan accounts and unique to you

 

• Password - give your guest account a valid password - they will use this to login
• Confirm Password - same characters as Password
• Choose the type of access for this user
  • Browse - can view the page through the browser with newly created guest account userid & password (need to use the radio button  for Only registered users have browse access)
• click OK

• use the radio button to select only registered users have browse access
• click Apply