Security - Controlling Access to Your FrontPage Web

With FrontPage you can control users accessing your site for:

• 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

General Security

• permissions can not be applied to a file or folder
• permissions can only be applied to a web
• to secure a file
  • make a folder
  • put the file to be secured into the folder
  • right click on the folder and select Convert to Web
  • follow the directions below to set up permissions for the subweb

Restricting User Access Using the FrontPage Security Tool

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



• Press OK on the information box - it says you can not change them the permissions -- but you can
  
  
  
  
• login with the same credentials that you used to login to the website
   - usually your email userid/password
  
  
  
  
• you will now have access to  Permissions Administration
• If this is the first time the permissions for this site are being set you will see the following
  
  
• select Change Permissions
  
  
  
• select Use unique permissions for this Web site then press Submit
• if prompted to save a file press Cancel
• use your browser's Back button to return to the administrator's home
• if permissions have been set for this site before you will enter here
  
  
  
  
  
• To change unique permissions for this subweb

• select Change permissions under Using unique permissions
  
  
  

• press the radio button next
  • Use same permissions as parent Web site to use the same permission that have been set for the parent
  • Use unique permissions for this Web site to have security on this subweb that is different from the parent
• press Submit
  
   
• Managing Users
• Select Manage users from the Permissions Administration screen



• this displays the list of users and their roles
  
  
  
  
• To add a user

  • select Add a user
    
    
    
    

  • 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
  • Select a Role for this user
    • Administrator - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can do anything the owner can do (even set security)
    • Advanced author - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can do anything the owner can do except, can not change security
    • Author - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can edit pages (can not change security)
    • Browser - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password
  • click Add User
  • You will be asked to save a file on your desktop machine - you can cancel this - you do not need to save the file

    use the back button on your browser to see the userid you added on the list of users

• To delete a user
  • put a checkmark in front of the user to delete
  • press Delete selected user(s)
  • press OK in the Are you sure? alert box
    

Special Groups

Secure your site so only Wesleyan users can browse it.

1. select Tools/Security Permissions



 
2. be sure Anonymous browsing disabled
   • select Change anonymous access settings
     
     
   • be sure Anonymous access is Off
3. be sure the site is set for Using unique permissions
   • select Change permissions
     
     
   • select Use unique permissions for this Web site
4. select Manage Users
5. select Add User
   • User name - enter anywesuser
   • Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
   • Confirm password - same characters as Password
   • Select Browser Role for this user
     • Browser - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password
   • click Add User
   • You may be asked to save a file on your desktop machine - you can cancel this - you do not need to save the file
6. use the back button on your browser to see the userid you added on the list of users

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

1. select Tools/Security Permissions



 
2. be sure Anonymous browsing disabled
   • select Change anonymous access settings
     
     
   • be sure Anonymous access is Off
3. be sure the site is set for Using unique permissions
   • select Change permissions
     
     
   • select Use unique permissions for this Web site
   • press Submit
4. select Manage Users
5. select Add User
   • User name - enter  classlist_cid_yearsemester  (for example: classlist_math101_2006f)
   • Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
   • Confirm password - same characters as Password
   • Select Browser Role for this user
     • Browser - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password
   • click Add User
   • You may be asked to save a file on your desktop machine - you can cancel this - you do not need to save the file
6. use the back button on your browser to see the userid you added on the list of users

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

1. select Tools/Security Permissions



 
2. be sure Anonymous browsing disabled
   • select Change anonymous access settings
     
     
   • be sure Anonymous access is Off
   • press Submit
3. be sure the site is set for Using unique permissions
   • select Change permissions
     
     
   • select Use unique permissions for this Web site
   • press Submit
4. select Manage Users
5. select Add User
   • User name - enter  dept_departmentcode   (for example: dept_math)
   • Password - any characters (needed to add user - but user will use their email password)
   • Confirm password - same characters as Password
   • Select Browser Role for this user
     • Browser - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password
   • click Add User
   • You may be asked to save a file on your desktop machine - you can cancel this - you do not need to save the file
6. use the back button on your browser to see the userid you added on the list of users

Guest Accounts

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

1. select Tools/Security Permissions



 
2. be sure the site is set for Using unique permissions
   • select Change permissions
     
     
   • select Use unique permissions for this Web site
   • press Submit
3. select Manage Users
4. select Add User
   • User name - enter  guest_username   (for example: guest_itsuser)
     • 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
   • Select Role for this user
     • Administrator - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can do anything the owner can do (even set security)
     • Advanced author - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can do anything the owner can do except, can not change security
     • Author - can access this web site through FrontPage with their Wesleyan email userid & password and can edit pages (can not change security)
     • Browser - can view the page through the browser with Wesleyan email userid & password
   • click Add User
   • You may be asked to save a file on your desktop machine - you can cancel this - you do not need to save the file
5. use the back button on your browser to see the userid you added on the list of users